Internment Camp Survivor  By: KKTV 11 News By: KKTV 11 News  It
was one of the dark moments in the nation's history---the
internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. This week
in Colorado Springs, one of the survivors from the camps spoke
about his experiences, and about being betrayed by his own
country.  December 7, 1941---the attack on the American naval
base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. It would mean a dramatic change
in the life of Bill Hosokawa. He was just 20-years-old at the
time. "All of a sudden, my government says, ‘You are a Jap. We
don't trust you.' Suddenly, we were the enemy." An enemy, as
declared by Executive Order 9066 by then-President Frankin D.
Roosevelt in 1942.  At the time, Hosokawa was living in Seattle
with his wife and 2 year-old son. But soon, like 120,000 other
Japanese Americans, they were forced to leave their homes and
re-establish themselves in one of 10 internment camps in the
United States.  They made the 900-mile journey from Seattle to
Heart Mountain in Wyoming. "I