Posted on 02/22/2024 2:57:51 AM PST by Red Badger
One doesn’t heal by opening old wounds.
Frankly, when reports of the Bataan death march hit the papers it was a good thing that they were in camps.
Not exactly what I think of in the way of a park. Pretty desolate looking area.
Kids: “Daddy take us to the new Amache park …”
LOL
A “National Historic Site” is not a “National Park”.
the wrongs of our past in order to build a more just and equitable future,
I have no idea what that actually means...
Sorry...It should be demolished.
Are we white folks doing anything right? Have we ever?
Maybe they can repurpose it for illegal aliens.
White people are so terrible, Im surprised the rest of the world wants to live in our countries.
Fixed that.
Notice the article manages to not mention FDR.
Now to really throw some cognitive dissonance in here, what if there was massive spying and planned sabotage of the war effort by some Americans of recent Japanese descent? How to you deal with that situation without revealing you've broken a key Japanese code that allows you to know this?
Every FReeper interested in this issue should read:
If it isn’t one “dark chapter of injustice,” it’s another. I wish we would celebrate our achievements.
Righter than you knew. The principle reason for removing ethnic Japanese from the west coast was that riots were already starting to happen within days of Pearl Harbor.
The story you THINK you know is largely a fabrication by lawyers seeking compensation (and fat fees) from Congress in the 1980s.
The book is Magic: The Untold Story of U.S. Intelligence and the Evacuation of Japanese Residents from the West Coast During Ww II by David B. Lowman -- available from Amazon or Alibris.
Lowman was a former high level officer in the National Security Agency and a witness before congressional committees dealing with the evacuation he was uniquely qualified to tell this story. It touches closely on the American codebreakers' success in reading Japanese radio codes, hence the name. Until crucial documents were declassified he couldn't write this book, and consequently it was published posthumously.
Oh, good. You already posted the book title. I’d begun to think that I was the only person who even knew about it.
It means "KILL WHITEY!!!"
Hopefully not. No need to warehouse them, take them straight to the buses for the trip back to the border. I could see the feds rounding us up and renaming it Camp FReeper.
Hindsight is always 20/20
People tend to forget, while we look back at it as inevitable the American government would prevail in its prosecution of the war, in 1942 this was by no means certain. It was an all out effort, a 100% commitment by everyone. They rationed everything.
You couldn’t even buy a tube of toothpaste without turning the empty one back in to your friendly grocer, who counted it against your points. There is no way the i would have wasted any resources interning thousands of people unless they truly thought it was necessary.
There’s no other explanation that fits the facts. They weren’t going to take any chances, because they wanted to succeed in their objective. It illustrates the potential danger they feared, of having significant numbers of people within a political unit who may decide to cause trouble in one form or another. Enormous resources and planning were involved, men and material that could have been allocated to other direct methods of prosecuting the war.
I’m not excusing what they did, but I understand why they thought it was necessary at the time. There was no way to know for sure at the time.
Coming soon:
Another aggrieved group seeking reparations in 3..2..1..
Done did......................
More likely to be repurposed for MAGA supporters.
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