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Rodney Gortmaker 1942 - 1993

Rodney Gortmaker of Canistota, McCook County, SD was born on March 17, 1942, and died at age 51 years old on August 23, 1993.
Rodney Gortmaker
Canistota, McCook County, SD 57012
March 17, 1942
August 23, 1993
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  • 03/17
    1942

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    March 17, 1942
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  • 08/23
    1993

    Death

    August 23, 1993
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    Rodney Gortmaker lived 22 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 51.
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In 1942, in the year that Rodney Gortmaker was born, on February 19th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This authorized the Secretary of War to "prescribe certain areas as military zones." On March 21st, he signed Public Law 503 which was approved after an hour discussion in the Senate and 30 minutes in the House. The Law provided for enforcement of his Executive Order. This cleared the way for approximately 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry to be evicted from the West Coast and to be held in concentration camps and other confinement sites across the country. In Hawaii, a few thousand were detained. German and Italian Americans in the U.S. were also confined.
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In 1962, he was 20 years old when lasting from October 16th - 28th, the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest that the United States and the Soviet Union came to nuclear war. The Soviet Union had been installing a nuclear missile base in Cuba. The United States established a blockade to stop the base from being completed. Through secret negotiations, war was averted: the Soviet Union agreed to dismantle their weapons in Cuba and the United States agreed to never invade Cuba and to dismantle weapons in Turkey and Italy.
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