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This segment appeared in the CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood in a segment called Day that lives in Infamy.

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MAS OKUI: We went to school on Monday, the attack was on Sunday, and Monday I was looked upon as the enemy because I looked like the enemy.

INTERVIEWER: Another similarity between Pearl Harbor and the attacks of September 11th is that Ethnic Americans immediately came under suspicion. It can be argued that because of what happened to Japanese Americans in WWII, Arab Americans today will not experience the indignity and fear of the Internment camps of places like Manzanar.

What was the population of Manzanar?

MAS OKUI: At its peak over 10,000, little over 10,000 in less than a square mile.

INTERVIEWER: Small town.

MAS OKUI: Well it was in all essences a town, we had every service here, everything but freedom.

INTERVIEWER: Mas Okui was ten years old when his parents and three brothers were bussed over 200 miles to Manzanar from their Los Angeles home.

MAS OKUI: The whole chain of events that evolved from the attack on Pearl Harbor sent me and ten to twenty thousand people who looked just like the enemy to places like this.

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INTERVIEWER: It was the saddest of times for those imprisoned in the camps, for the young Japanese Americans who went off to fight for America with distinction… to fight for a country that didn't trust them.

MAS OKUI: You see some of that today. You look like the enemy, you certainly are the enemy. I would hope that what happens in our time, that people who look like the enemy are not treated like the enemy in this country. I hope that happens.

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