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World War II veteran Ray Lincoln Puckett was born on Feb. 12, 1925, a birthday he shares with President Lincoln, his namesake. Puckett’s great-uncle, Ezekiel J. Sankey, shared stories of his experience as a Union soldier during the Civil War when Puckett was in grade school.

A new project to memorialize the 125,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII will include soil from 75 former internment sites including one in Portland. Chisao Hata joined OPB to talk about the legacy of Japanese Americans in the Pacific Northwest and her participation in the Irei monument project.

During World War II, lawyer Minoru Yasui challenged the military curfews in place for German nationals, Italian nationals, and anyone with Japanese ancestry.