On December 7, 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese launched the United States into World War II, resulting in the death of 2,403 service members and civilians. Efforts to identify those who died in the attack are still ongoing. In response to the attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 and imprisoned over 100,000 Japanese Americans, many of them U.S. citizens, in concentration camps. The U.S. Congress issued an apology for this incarceration in 1988, acknowledging it as a result of racial prejudice and wartime hysteria. The incoming Trump administration has indicated intentions to use the act to remove undocumented immigrants. Eighty-three years after the Pearl Harbor attacks, the event still remains a date of infamy in American history, with the photos taken during and after the bombings serving as a reminder of the impact it had on the nation.
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