Posted on 02/19/2018 5:32:12 AM PST by Bull Snipe
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066. Under this executive order, about 120,000 Japanese, 3,000 German and 300 Italian American citizens and legal immigrants were forced into internment camps for what could be the duration of WWII.
442nd Infantry Regiment.
We had Germans living across the street during WWII. My mom said military personnel (civilian) would ask about their coming and going.
You wont read about this in the MSM.
My grandparents had German POWs working on their farm. They were happy to be there and not in Europe.
Not the only Nisei to serve the United States. There were 14 Nisei, in Col. Frank Merrill’s 5307th Composite Unit (aka Merrill’s Marauders). These men served as interpreters for the unit operating against the Japanese in Burma. Three of the men volunteered from internment camps. The rest were from Hawaii, where Japanese Americans were not interned.
after the war, German POW’s were given the option of returning to Germany or remaining in the U.S. My High School German teacher, decided to remain in the U.S.
These were not POWs. These were naturalized American citizens.
They had 24 hours to report.
I’m sure it will be a featured segment on the every 6 PM network newscast tonight, complete with lots of hand-wringing from historians and Japanese-American activists.
CNN will undoubtedly mention it at the top of every hour all day long as a promotion for a special hour-long prime-time retrospective on the most unique and singular act of mass deprivation of civil rights in the modern era.
GEE!!! I know it was a ‘violation’ of human rights.
I know that as a result of all the Japanese on Left Coast being interred meant that FDR was forced to fill the Gardener ‘void’ and allow MILIONS of Mexicans to come here and tend the lawns and such.
I know that when the ‘others’ were disinterred, nothing great was done to allow the ‘new others’ the privilege of returning to their homeland.
I would imagine that ALL the ‘naysayers’ would have been happier had we rounded up ALL the ‘others’ and marched them to railroad sidings and off to ‘camps’ to be exterminated and experimented on. (NAZI concentration camps)
I would imagine that ALL the ‘naysayers’ would rather we rounded up all the Asians, and marched them from California to say Missouri, bayoneting the weak, sick and stragglers (no sense wasting precious ammunition) and shooting those that were trying to help their comrades. (Bataan Death March, Rape of Nanking etc etc)
I would imagine that all the ‘naysayers’ would rather we rounded up all the others we could then place them on ships so as to run interference for our fleets so the ‘prisoners of opportunity’ could be shields and intercept the torpedos.
I also suppose it would have been more humane to take the stance that POWs were a nuisance- only more bodies to feed, wounds to tend to and the possibility if they lived they would be back to fight another day.
Yes, CNN, MSM, and the rest of the hand wringers, again ‘we The People’ have been duped and the clowns trying to put ‘US’ on a guilt trip when if we had adapted the method of POWs and interred civilian that our enemies had, we would be a much better place...
Same as all the BS about our Southern Borders.
DO NOTHING. DO NOTHING AT ALL.
EXCEPT
Adopt the Mexican standard of how to handle ‘foreigners’
Don’t leave out a comma or period.
Follow it directly by THEIR book.
Then shoot the stragglers...
Also, wrong as it may have been, FDR probably saved a lot of Japanese lives - they couldn’t ‘blend in’ as well as the Germans and Italians and don’t forget the IRISH and their War efforts to provide aid and comfort to the German UBoats.
I know it is only a movie, but ‘Bad Day at Black Rock’ is coming around again on TCM(?) it may give the uneducated a look at just how HUMANE US citizens that didn’t don the uniform were to our fellow man.
Seems the Gentleman in question would have been better off in an interment camp - as well as his KIA son.....
good idea, maybe we can do this to the lefts wackos...like hollywood
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