These soldiers fought for this country after we put so many Japanese-American civilians, including their own friends and family, in internment camps. With your support, we will hopefully be able to put a stop to the legacy of racial hatred by changing the name and intent of Victory Day we could instead celebrate BIPOC veterans or honor the Nisei, (Japanese American), soldiers who fought for America in World War II. The coalition Stop AAPI Hate recorded 3,795 incidents involving Anti-Asian hate between March 19th last year and February 28th, 2021.
Some Japanese Americans are even scared to go outside on this day. Signing the petition to make this change is especially important at this time, because there’s been a recent surge in Anti-Asian hate crimes. Victory Day is likely to bring up horrible memories for those who survived the horror of Japanese-American civilian internment camps, and for relatives of the survivors. We’d appreciate it if you signed this petition, which proposes that we change the name Victory Day or simply stop celebrating it because it celebrates the day we bombed 75,000 unarmed civilians in Nagasaki. Victory Day is only considered an official holiday in Rhode Island. This petition concerns Victory Day, (also called Victory Day, or Victory Over Japan Day), which is celebrated in Rhode Island on the second Monday of August every year.
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