Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Alternate Highway 14, twelve miles north of Cody, Wyoming, August 1994

One hundred ten thousand Japanese Americans were imprisoned in twenty-four internment camps
located in remote areas of the American West during the Second World War. At the time of the
February 19, 1942, Executive Order initiating the forced relocation, there had not been a single act of
disloyalty by a Japanese American.

In 1988, Congress awarded surviving internees or their descendants $20,000 and an apology as retribution
for the violation of their constitutional rights.