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Senator Inouye has personal special recollections about the Second World War. He fought As the US. Army captain of the 442nd Battalion in Italy. That's where he lost his right arm after the war he returned to this country. San Francisco as a matter of fact on market

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suite at that time, he couldn't get a haircut because he was japanese. This is Evan white reporting for eyewitness news. So this uh this meeting tonight is concerned with an area in which I think the warren family as a whole is particularly concerned. Uh We lived

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through the japanese relocation and like all americans, I think very good share of that guilt. My father was governor at the time and uh um he went along like almost all americans did with the relocation. Uh I suppose we have to accept the Supreme Court's ruling

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at that time that it was a constitutional act, but that doesn't make it a right act. We think that it was a totally un american act, Certainly a tragic and unnecessary act was proven to be wrong. And uh, this meeting tonight is to try to remove

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any chance of that happening again. This title two is an insidious thing. It probably is unconstitutional in itself. Aside from what the relocation decision was before. So we're interested very much in seeing it taken off the books. There are terms in our democracy when we can't

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take things for granted. We contend ourselves and saying that concentration camps would never happen in the United States. But we do have a provision in our law that says in times of emergency, the president of the United States may detain people without the usual due process

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of law. This is a block in our democracy that has no place in our books and I, for one is one of the senators will do everything possible to have it erased. To those who maintain that this will never happen. I'd like to just point out

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that 27 years ago, 109,000 residents of California, his only crime was being born of japanese ancestry were put aside in concentration camps without any due process of law. So it can happen. So I would like to as just another american to see that this unhappy and

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black page in our law books is just torn out. Do you think the atmosphere exists in this country for that law to be used again in the near future? I personally do not think so, but even if there is no use for it, I don't think

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it has a place in our books. That's my idea should be out.