 The Long Journey Home (ceremonial event)

The Long Journey Home was a ceremonial event held at the main campus of the University of Washington on May 18, 2008, commemorating the Japanese American students who, due to the passage of Executive Order 9066 in 1942, were forced to leave the school and live in internment camps in the western United States.For nearly seventy years, many Japanese Americans were unable to return to the university to complete their education.