The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal.

February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East.

If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

The thing about World War II is that everyone knows about the concentration camps in Europe - in Nazi Germany and Poland and Auschwitz and the other camps - but, no one really talks about the camps that were here in the United States.