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PAPUA NEW GUINEA. BACK TO YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH, DEIRDRE. AND DURING WORLD WAR TWO, MORE THAN 110,000 PEOPLE OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY WERE INCARCERATED IN THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING 1800 IN PLACER COUNTY ALONE, KEEPING THAT HISTORY ALIVE IS THE MISSION FOR THE STILL STANDING GUARD COMMITTEE. AND JOINING US THIS MORNING IS STU HIGUERA, WHO’S PART OF THE COMMITTEE AND AGAIN, JOINING US LIVE. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME THIS MORNING. WELL, THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. LET’S START IN PLACER COUNTY, WHERE WAS THIS ENCAMPMENT AND WHO COMPRISED THE CAMP’S POPULATION THERE WERE MAINLY THE NISEI, WHICH IS A SECOND GENERATION AMERICAN BORN CITIZENS. AND SOME OF THEIR PARENTS, PROBABLY TWO THIRDS OF THE PEOPLE WERE FROM WHERE AMERICAN CITIZENS AND THE CAMPS WERE NOT JUST IN CALIFORNIA. THEY WERE SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES TRYING TO TAKE PEOPLE AWAY FROM THE COAST. SO HOW DID THE INTERNMENT CAMPS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REALLY END UP SHAPING OUR REGION, ESPECIALLY ONCE THE WAR WAS OVER? WELL, THEY TOOK AWAY THE JAPANESE-AMERICANS, WEREN’T VERY WEREN’T ABLE TO OWN LAND AND SO THEY WERE THEY TOOK AWAY THE FARMERS. A LOT OF PEOPLE FELT LIKE THAT THE THE AGRICULTURAL PEOPLE WERE STRONG IN THE CALIFORNIA AND THEY WANTED TO GET RID OF THE JAPANESE-AMERICANS BECAUSE THEY WERE SUCH GOOD FARMERS. SO WHY DO YOU THINK THAT, ESPECIALLY FOR THIS COMMITTEE, WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT TO SHARE THESE STORIES? WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE WE BRING EDUCATION TO THE PEOPLE, TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS EVENT TEACHES PEOPLE ABOUT PROTECTING AND UPHOLDING THE RIGHTS OF ALL UNITED STATES CITIZENS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION. NOW, STU, WE’LL GET YOU OUT OF OUT OF HERE ON THIS. YOUR COMMITTEE IS HOSTING AN EVENT. WHAT CAN FOLKS LOOK FORWARD TO? WELL, TONIGHT, FROM 7 TO 9:00 AT THE DEL ORO HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM, OUR PROGRAMS CAN INCLUDE A READING FROM STORIES FROM THE STANDING GUARD BOOK, A SHORT FILM FROM SIERRA COLLEGE PRESS, EXPLAINING WHAT THE STANDING GUARD BOOK WAS ALL ABOUT. AND IT WAS STORIES FROM NISEI OR THE SECOND GENERATION JAPANESE-AMERICANS. AND THEN THEY’RE GOING, ARE CULMINATING EVENT WILL BE A PANEL DISCUSSION FROM PEOPLE WITH A VARIETY OF VIEWS ABOUT THE EVENTS AND INCARCERATION OF THE JAPANESE-AMERICANS DURING WO