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"The FBI had come to pick up Papa and hundreds of other Japanese community leaders on the very day that Japanese plances had bombed Pearl Harbor. The government thought they were dangerous enemy aliens. If it weren't so sad, it would have been funny. Papa could no more be dangerous thatn the mayor of our city, and he was every bit as loyal to the United States. He had lived here since 1917" Yoshiko Uchida in The Bracelet