Executive Order 9066
Days of Remembrance:
Never Again is Now
Sunday, February 15 and Saturday, February 21, 2026.
Every year, St. Peter’s commemorates the signing of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the forced removal and mass incarceration of Japanese Americans on the West Coast in February 1942. St. Peter’s closed for the duration of the internment as its members were incarcerated in desolate camps miles from home, along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans.
You can listen to some of St. Peter’s stories of internment here.
Join us this year during our commemoration service or for our pilgrimage to the Puyallup fairgrounds.
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St Peter’s Service of Remembrance & Lunch
Sunday, February 15 at 10:30 am
Join St. Peter’s for its annual Service of Remembrance to sit in the tension of past, present, and future as Christ’s body and resisters of Empire. Lunch will follow the service.
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Day of Remembrance at Puyallup Fair Grounds
Saturday, February 21 from 10 am-12 pm, plus lunch together after the event
St. Peter’s will once again offer a pilgrimage down to Puyallup to participate in the annual Day of Remembrance event put on by local chapters of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), Tsuru for Solidarity, Minidoka Pilgrimage Planning Committee and other local groups.
Most Japanese Americans in the Seattle area spent their first few months in detention at the Puyallup Assembly Center, where the Washington State Fairgrounds stand today. The Day of Remembrance is a way to acknowledge and honor the over 125,000 people of Japanese descent who were incarcerated during World War II.
image: Behind Barbed Wire. Courtesy of the Tokuda Family Collection, Densho