Wednesday, December 06, 2023 – Most Americans are aware of what happened at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. That tragic act that killed over 2400 soldiers and wounded 1200 more, would bring America into WWII. Just 10 weeks later President Franklin Delano Roosevelt would sign an executive order that would incarcerate people of Japanese descent, under suspicion as enemies, confining them to several internment camps across the country. One of those prison camps was right here in North Dakota. Special Contributor Alicia Hegland Thorpe tells us about a memorial to acknowledge what happened at that site. ~~~ Tom Isern shares a Plains Folk essay, Dry Landers Lullabye. ~~~ Jamestown Fine Arts Association has a $2 million capital campaign. We learn more from Mindi Schmitz. ~~~ Sue Balcom is here to talk about gifts for foodies.
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, an executive order resulted in the imprisonment of 120,000 Japanese Americans, most of whom were American citizens. Some prisoners remain unidentified in the Library of Congress's photos, and it wants the public's help.