As the trees flower this Spring, they serve as a reminder about a post Perl Harbor anti-Japanese protest in Washington.
Smithsonian Magazine reports several of the Japanese Cherry Trees, which still attract lots of tourists to D.C. each year, were cut down by vandals on December 11, 1941. And they made their message clear.
A movement started to cut down all of the trees, which had been donated by Japan as a gesture of friendship in 1910.
The Park Service changed the name to Oriental Cherry Trees and the proposed mass cutting proposal died off.
Smithsonian Magazine reports several of the Japanese Cherry Trees, which still attract lots of tourists to D.C. each year, were cut down by vandals on December 11, 1941. And they made their message clear.
A movement started to cut down all of the trees, which had been donated by Japan as a gesture of friendship in 1910.
The Park Service changed the name to Oriental Cherry Trees and the proposed mass cutting proposal died off.
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