Having frequently driven by the Manzanar Internment Camp in California, I’m reminded of what fear of the “other” can do.
Why? For several reasons. One big one was prisoner exchange. There was a lot of negotiation for prisoner exchange. In Fact, Japan demanded we round them up and protect them or else.
I AM SO TIRED OF THIS LIE ABOUT THE POOR JAPENSESE PRISONERS AND THE CAMPS. Many were given a chance to prove themselves as American citizeds and did so.
“I AM SO TIRED OF THIS LIE ABOUT THE POOR JAPENSESE PRISONERS AND THE CAMPS. Many were given a chance to prove themselves as American citizeds and did so.”
I think you need to have walked in their shoes. My son-in-law is half Japanese. His mother was born in that internment camp. His grandparents, loyal American citizens, were stripped of all their possessions and their business taken from them as they were carted off. Yeah, you can talk about it in terms of national security and the time of war and all of that, but internment destroyed people’s lives unnecessarily. And yes, my SIL’s family did come back, but it took the rest of their lives to do it. So from what I have learned by personal experience with my extended family, I would say what you wrote was largely bull$hit!