On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. They destroyed seven American battleships and 121 aircraft, killing 2,400 people. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt sent a telegram to let everyone know what was happening and it stated: "Washington, December 7 (AP) - President Roosevelt said in a statement today that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, from the air. The Japanese Attack also included all naval and military “activities” on the island of Oahu.” The president's brief statement was read to reporters by Presidential Secretary Stephen Early. No further details were immediately given. At the time of the White House announcement, Japanese Ambassadors Kiurisabora Nomura and Saburo Kurusu were at the State Department.” After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, America felt like it couldn't trust Japanese Americans, so they created the Japanese internment camps to protect themselves. On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066; this ordered Japanese internment camps. Ten internment camps were established where more than 110,000 Japanese Americans would also be transferred. The camps were distributed in blocks containing fourteen barracks. The temperature of the camps varied; most were located in deserts. The meals contained little food. The jobs were really bad, and cheap. Children had to go to school and learn. The Japanese were taken from their homes and put on buses and traveled that way to the camps. The camps were fenced. Each fenced camp was made up of blocks, the blocks contained fourteen barracks, a refectory and a recreation room on the outside. The interior contained ironing, laundry and men's and women's toilets...... middle of paper ... wire fence which we were told not to go near. And I remember the guard towers with machine guns pointed at us. And I remember the searchlight following me when I ran at night from our barracks to the latrines,” he said. “But a child is an incredibly adaptable person. All this has become normal for me. He and his family were sent to a high-security camp in California after receiving a questionnaire called The Loyalty Questionnaire. The first liberated Japanese were not released until 1944, and none were allowed to return home until the end of the war. Many people had no home left when they left the camps; their homes and occupations had disappeared. Judge Frank Murphy (a politician) called it "one of the most sweeping and complete deprivations of constitutional rights in the history of this nation, short of martial law." »..”