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The Importance of Justice
In 1948 congress approved payments of more than 37 million dollars to settle claims from over 26,000 japanese americans who had been detained during the war. For fred koramatsu and gordon hirabayashi their legal judgments would continue to haunt them for nearly four decades. In 1982 a young researcher about your age flew all the way out here from dc to talk to you about something He recently discovered while going through the department of justice archives. The archivist was out sick that day and that fill-in just handed me the box without going through it or taking notes or anything I started reading and then I saw well I saw documents proving the war department line Line to
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