HIDEO MURATA LIVED alone in a small cottage outside San Luis Obispo, California, and had taken to his adopted country with such fervor that he fought for the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I. At one Fourth of July gala following his return, the Monterey County board of supervisors granted him a “Certificate of Honorary Citizenship.” The piece of paper was Murata’s most prized possession; his friends would joke that he slept with it under his pillow. After hearing the news of Roosevelt’s executive order, Murata visited the Monterey County sheriff, an old friend. Surely this is a
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