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NPR: Japanese American Congressional Gold Medal returns home

Congressional Gold MedalThe Congressional Gold Medal awarded to Japanese Americans who served during World War II has returned to the Smithsonian Museum of American History, reports NPR.

Symbolically, the medal came back on the Day of Remembrance, the day in 1942 when when Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066–the order sending 120,000 Japanese Americans behind barbed wire.

The medal has been on a tour of the United States and will now be permanently displayed at the Smithsonian.

Also today,  a group of Japanese American veterans met with President Obama.

You can read about that here.

 

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