Their love story began in an age of fear; their legacy grows in a Hood River Valley orchard
"life for the Jinguji family and others of Japanese descent in the United States became a desperate struggle to prove their loyalty to a nation that looked upon them with suspicion and mistrust.
On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, forcing more than 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast, including nearly 4,000 Oregonians, to report to relocation centers
More than two-thirds of them were U.S. citizens by birth, or Nisei. Their Japanese-born parents, or Issei, were not allowed under exclusion laws to apply for citizenship. That wouldn’t change until 1952.
Not one of the detainees had been charged or convicted of any crimes related to espionage."
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