Today in history, The Japanese-American Internment Compensation Bill is Signed by President Ronald Reagan.

In 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which was used almost exclusively to intern Americans of Japanese descent.  By 1943, more than 110,000 Japanese Americans had been forced from their homes and moved to camps. 

Forty-six years later, on August 10, 1988, President Reagan signed the Japanese-American Internment Compensation Bill.  The bill acknowledged the injustice of the internment, apologized for it, and provided a $20,000 cash payment to each person who was interned.

Pictured above: First-grade children of Japanese ancestry during flag pledge ceremony at a public school in San Francisco prior to internment. 4/20/42

Below: President Reagan signs the Reparations Bill for Japanese-Americans in the Old Executive Office Building. 8/10/88

Source: archives.gov

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    Reagan did a lovely thing, there. I applaud this. I have to wonder, though, what would happen if the US government made...