This weekend marks 81 years since more than 125,000 people of Japanese ancestry living in the U.S., including NBC News correspondent Emilie Ikeda's late grandfather, were ordered into internment camps during World War II
The NBC News correspondent paid a moving visit to the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles this week, exploring her personal connection to a shameful chapter in U.S. history.who were affected by Executive Order 9066 in 1942., lists all 125,284 names, which include Emilie's grandparents. She wiped away tears on TODAY Feb. 17 as she marked the name of her grandfather, Bunji Albert Ikeda.
"I always questioned why I was in this internment camp," he said."We had these canvas cots, we had to fill these bags with hay, and that’s what we slept on." University of Southern California professor Duncan Ryuken Williams spent the past three years working to compile the book. Before now, it was not known exactly how many Japanese Americans were ripped from their homes and taken from their businesses and sent to the camps.
The museum sits on the very site where many Japanese Americans were put on buses headed to the camps 81 years ago.
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