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NFL Network Airing Documentary on Undefeated HS Football Team of Japanese-Americans Incarcerated During WWII

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May 27, 2024, 08:22 PM
TMats
NFL Network Airing Documentary on Undefeated HS Football Team of Japanese-Americans Incarcerated During WWII
Premiering tonight at 2100 MDT. I imagine there will be other opportunities.

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A half-hour documentary featuring the unique story of the Heart Mountain Eagles — the football team for Wyoming’s notorious World War II Japanese internment camp — premieres on the NFL Network on Memorial Day.

And the NFL hired a Cowboy State company to tell the Wyoming story.

The documentary “9066: Fear, Football, and the Theft of Freedom” tells the story of the Eagles, a high-school football team of Japanese Americans incarcerated at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center during World War II. It was called a “relocation center,” but was in reality an internment camp.


Heart Mountain is located near Powell, Wyoming, which lies out east of Cody. I saw this photo of a plaque at the site. Memorial Day being observed today it struck me as worthwhile to post it.



Pretty incredible that "more than 750 internees" there volunteered to serve, and 15 Japanese-Americans paid the ultimate price.

Heart Mountain Eagles Documentary


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May 29, 2024, 01:04 PM
Skull Leader
I remember watching a documentary on the 442nd and one of the guys said his mother told him to come home with honor or don't come home. What a punch in the gut that must have been.

I really think the next project by Spielberg and Hanks should be telling the story of the 442nd. The good, the bad, and the ugly.
May 29, 2024, 02:26 PM
TMats
The documentary uses former NFL player Scott Fugita as its connection to the internment camp. Fugita, who is white, was adopted by Rodney Fugita and his wife (also white). Scott’s father Rodney, was born in the Phoenix internment camp and his father, Nagao Fugita, was a combat veteran of the 442nd.

If you followed the link, you saw that the title of the documentary is: 9066: Fear, Football, and the Theft of Freedom. “9066” is Roosevelt’s Executive Order that put Japanese-Americans in internment camps, an order that was upheld by the USSC.


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