Then. After Pearl Harbor, the United States removed more than 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes and locked them in camps. Most were citizens. Property was lost. The Supreme Court failed them in Korematsu.
After. Veterans, organizers, and members of Congress spent decades making the record public. The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 apologized and paid surviving internees.
A country that can name its own wrong is still a country worth the work.
