ralph carr, governor of colorado, 1942. (menacing music continues) (pensive music) - [evelyn] during a brief window of three weeks, 5,000 men, women, and children undertook the herculean task of rapidly packing up their lives and fleeing from the western states. by the end of march, the us government halted all voluntary self-evacuation. the remaining 120,000 japanese americans living on the west coast were forcibly removed and sent to concentration camps. - because japanese americans were rounded up and incarcerated just because they were of japanese ancestry. it didn't matter that they were citizens. they were born in this country or they were naturalized citizens, and they were still rounded up. they were blamed for what had happened, for another country's attack on the us. - yeah, just the great unknown must have been so stressful. which is why again, i chalk it up to the bravery of the issei and the nisei at the time, who then faced what was coming, bravely. i think they stood up to it. and the fact that they took thei