Nob Shimokochi still remembers the hardship he suffered as a Japanese-American during World War II. "We used to say the Pledge of Allegiance in camp. 'With liberty and justice for all,' we said, and that irritated me like a pebble in my shoe.
"I used to say 'liberty and justice for some' but I didn't say it very loudly. I was afraid the FBI would make me disappear."
Shimokochi, 82, is one of more than 14,000 Japanese-Americans who were taken to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming almost 70 years ago. Forced by the U.S. government to evacuate their homes on the West Coast due to the view that they were a military threat because of their Japanese ancestry, they lived in barracks in the barren desert for up to three years.