February, 19, 2020, is the 78th anniversary of Executive Order 9066 which gave the government the authority to intern Japanese Americans and others who posed a security threat during World War II. It is also the first anniversary of my debut novel, The California Immigrant, which chronicles the events of World War II in my home town--Watsonville, California. At the time of Pearl Harbor, Watsonville had one of the largest Japanese towns on the West Coast, most of whom were Ame