{"id":22899,"date":"2022-12-09T11:18:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T19:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=22899"},"modified":"2022-12-09T11:18:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T19:18:18","slug":"german-italian-and-japanese-clubs-at-el-dorado-come-together-to-reflect-on-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=22899","title":{"rendered":"German, Italian, and Japanese clubs at El Dorado come together to reflect on World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

El Dorado High School’s German, Italian, and Japanese Clubs recently came together for a luncheon in honor of the historic date in\u00a0history, December 7.\u00a0 The students and their advisors dined on Tony’s Little Italy pizza, conversed, laughed, and listened to Italian music.\u00a0According to German and Italian Club Advisor, Dr. Gregory Beckman, Italians believe in meeting with friends and family, breaking bread, and having a festive time.\u00a0

The luncheon was also used\u00a0as an opportunity\u00a0to observe that on December 7, 1941, 2,403 Americans lost their lives at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii after Imperial Japan’s surprise attack on the\u00a0U.S. Pacific Naval Fleet stationed there.\u00a0 This event propelled the United States into World War II against the Axis powers\u2014Germany, Italy, and Japan.

In addition, the groups addressed and discussed the issue of President\u00a0Roosevelt’s Executive\u00a0Order 9066, which\u00a0placed 125,000 people of Japanese ancestry living in the U.S. into internment camps for the duration of the war.\u00a0One Japanese American, Fred Korematsu, defied this order but was subsequently captured, tried, and convicted.\u00a0Korematsu appealed\u00a0his case to the Supreme\u00a0Court, contending that it was a violation of the due process clause under the Fifth\u00a0Amendment.\u00a0The Supreme Court, however, ruled against Korematsu, stating that, “Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of restrictions which curtail the civil rights of a single racial group.”

And finally, the students and teachers discussed how World War II came to an end in 1945, with the U.S. defeating Germany, Italy, and Japan.\u00a0These three nations were devastated by the war.\u00a0Instead of taking out revenge against its former enemies, the United States helped these three countries restructure their governments and rebuild their economies.\u00a0Today, Germany, Italy, and Japan are thriving democracies and free-market economies.\u00a0Once tyrannies, these nations\u00a0are now models for the rest of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n