El Dorado German, Italian, and Japanese Clubs Come Together to Remember Pearl Harbor Attack

On December 7, the Italian Club at El Dorado High School hosted its second annual German-Italian-Japanese Club luncheon to commemorate the loss of 2,403 American lives at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in 1941 after Imperial Japan’s surprise military attack on the U.S. Pacific Naval Fleet.

The students also examined Executive Order 9066 and the Supreme Court’s landmark decision of Korematsu vs. the U.S. and how it impacted persons of Japanese ancestry living in the United States during World War II. Ultimately, the defeat of the Axis Powers was explored at the luncheon, and how the U.S. helped rebuild and restructure Germany, Italy, and Japan’s governments and economies after the war, making them into thriving democracies and free-market economies.