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It's the night of December 7th, 1941, in a house outside Los Angeles, California.

A Japanese American teenager, high-you-bue,

lies in bed as sounds of the news drift from downstairs where his parents sit on a couch,

their ears glued to the radio.

High can't sleep. He's been on edge since this morning,

when word of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor first broke.

As High listens to the radio and almost falls asleep,

allow pounding on the front door Joltson back away. High climbs out of bed,

creeps to his bedroom door, and cracks it open. He slips out of the bedroom,

carefully makes his way to the top of the stairwell to try to see what's going on as the banging

continues. When his mother finally opens the front door, three men in dark suits push past her.

One of the men grabs the radio and heads outside with it. Another pulls pictures from the wall

and throws books off a bookshelf. For a moment, High wonders if his family is being robbed,

but then one of the men whispers something to his partner, and the two men converge on

High's father, put him in handcuffs and drag him out of the house. High runs down the stairs

to his frightened mother and falls into her arms. He has no idea what's just happened or what these

men are going to do with his father. Early on December 7, 1941, the Japanese attack the American

naval base at Pearl Harbor on the Hawaiian Island of Wahoo. The next day, President Franklin

Delano Roosevelt will declare war on Japan, and the United States will officially join the Allied

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