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Today is a Day of Remembrance for Japanese Americans. On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt decided to move Japanese immigrants to internment camps, and the date marks a time to consider the lessons of that legacy.

This week, California will formally apologize for its role. This follows the federal government鈥檚 own apology in 1988, along with $20,000 in reparations to everyone who had been interned.

But the importance of that apology 鈥� and California鈥檚 鈥� goes back to the spirit of the first Remembrance Day in 1978. For decades, the Japanese community had rarely spoken of their internment, ashamed and afraid. But on that first Remembrance Day in Seattle, 鈥減arents opened up to their kids and told them about what happened to them during the war, many of them for the first time,鈥� , a blog about the internments.

That is why the apologies matter, Japanese Americans say. Speaking out cannot change the past, but it can shape the future.

鈥淭here is a saying in Japanese culture, 鈥榢odomo no tame ni,鈥� which means, 鈥榝or the sake of the children,鈥欌�� John Tateishi, one of the original activists, . 鈥淚t鈥檚 the legacy we鈥檙e handing down to them and to the nation to say that, 鈥榊ou can make this mistake, but you also have to correct it 鈥� and by correcting it, hopefully not repeat it again.鈥欌��