Nidoto Nai Yoni, translated as "Let It Not Happen Again" is the motto and mission of the Nikkei Exclusion Memorial. Located on the site of the former Eagledale ferry dock on Bainbridge Island, Washington, on March 30, 1942, two hundred twenty–seven men, women and children — two–thirds of them American citizens — were forcibly removed from their homes, rounded up by US Army soldiers armed with rifles fixed with bayonets and boarded a ferry to Seattle.
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Photo Information: Day of Forced Removal: Walking onto the Ferry Kehloken — Japanese Americans, escorted by armed soldiers, walk down the Eagledale ferry dock on Bainbridge Island, WA at the beginning of their forced removal to the Manzanar Assembly Center in the California desert. March 30, 1942. Copyright: Museum of History and Industry, Seattle Post Intelligencer Collection
Nidoto Nai Yoni, translated as "Let It Not Happen Again" is the motto and mission of the Nikkei Exclusion Memorial. Located on the site of the former Eagledale ferry dock on Bainbridge Island, Washington, on March 30, 1942, two hundred twenty–seven men, women and children — two–thirds of them American citizens — were forcibly removed from their homes, rounded up by US Army soldiers armed with rifles fixed with bayonets and boarded a ferry to Seattle.