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May 6 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
#AAPIHeritageMonth My family was told by the military authorities that internment was for our own protection, but the machine guns and searchlights in the guard towers surrounding Heart Mountain, our internment camp in northern Wyoming, faced inward" - Norm Mineta 1931-2022
Remembering Norm Mineta who passed away this May 3 at age 90. Incarcerated by the U.S. Government as a little boy under Executive Order 9066 he grew up to become the first AAPI Mayor of a major US City, ten-term Congressman & first AAPI Cabinet member.
Norm Mineta was Secretary of Transportation on 9/11 & played an instrumental role in the crisis control of that day including grounding all air traffic within 2+ hrs. Ten days after the attacks he forbade all US airlines from racially profiling Middle Eastern & Muslim passengers.
"I was 11 years old the day we got on the train, I had my baseball glove and baseball bat and as I got on the train, the MPs confiscated the bat because it could be used as the lethal weapon." Mineta remembered he wore his Cub Scout uniform that day on the ride to being interned.
Above quotes from NPR -
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