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Willie Gene Cooper 1931 - 2010

Willie Gene Cooper of Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia was born on September 13, 1931, and died at age 78 years old on June 9, 2010.
Willie Gene Cooper
Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia 30906
September 13, 1931
June 9, 2010
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  • 09/13
    1931

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    September 13, 1931
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  • 06/9
    2010

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    June 9, 2010
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    Willie Gene Cooper lived 6 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 78.
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In 1931, in the year that Willie Gene Cooper was born, in March, “The Star Spangled Banner” officially became the national anthem by congressional resolution. Other songs had previously been used - among them, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee", "God Bless America", and "America the Beautiful". There was fierce debate about making "The Star Spangled Banner" the national anthem - Southerners and veterans organizations supported it, pacifists and educators opposed it.
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In 1942, he was merely 11 years old when 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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