Ruth Lee, a hostess at a Chinese restaurant, chose to spend her day off on December 15th, 1941, sunbathing on a Miami beach, as was her custom. In a significant departure from her usual routine, she took a Chinese flag with her to ensure that onlookers would not mistake her for being of Japanese descent. This precaution came in the aftermath of the devastating attack on December 7, 1941, by Japanese aircraft on American naval bases at Pearl Harbor, an event President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously described as "a date which will live in infamy," which resulted in the death of over 2,300 Americans. Subsequently, on February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt ordered the internment of nearly 120,000 individuals of Japanese heritage, among whom approximately 80,000 were American citizens by birth. The photograph captures the Nationalist China flag, which, following the Communist revolution, became the emblem of Nationalist China in its exile to Taiwan. This flag continues to serve as the official flag of Taiwan today.
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⚠️📟🚨 Charles Raymond Starkweather, 19, and his 14-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate went on a killing spree in Nebraska and Wyoming from November 1957 to January 1958, murdering eleven people. Most of the murders, ten out of eleven, happened within just 8 days in late January 1958. Their first victim was Robert Colvert, killed on November 30, 1957, in Lincoln, Nebraska. In January 1958, they killed Fugate's family, then continued by murdering August Meyer, teenagers Robert Jensen and Carol King, and industrialist Chester Lauer Ward, his wife Clara, and their maid. Starkweather was caught on January 29, 1958, after a fast chase and shootout. He was executed in 1959, while Fugate spent 17 years in prison.
@fasc1nate Why don't you mention the Germans and Italians we interned? Why does nobody ever mention them?
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