Mountain skeleton may be man from Japanese internment camp

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | October 24, 2019 | Brian Melley

[artichokegrower]

In the closing days of World War II, a Japanese American set out with other men from the infamous internment camp at Manzanar on a trip to the mountains, where he went off on his own to paint a watercolor and got caught in a freak summer snowstorm.

A hiker found Giichi Matsumura's body weeks later amid a jumble of boulders, and he was laid to rest in a spot marked only by a small stack of granite slabs.

[artichokegrower]

His fate is a footnote to one of the darkest chapters in U.S. history, when more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were deemed a security risk and herded into prison camps in remote locations.

All done under the direction of a Democrat president.

[shelterguy]

All this started when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

[FreedomPoster]

There were many known security risks in the population at the time. Arresting just the known ones would have given away that we had broken key Japanese codes. The action was taken at a time when an existential threat was perceived, and many known bad actors out there, with the expectation there were more unknown ones.

You can still argue the actions were wrong, but you can’t argue it was all done because of racism, war hysteria and lack of political will, as a 1980s Dem Congressional Commission did, while ignoring the facts presented here.

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[DiogenesLamp]

Also, we did it to the Germans in WWI. Yes, we had German internment camps in WWI, and nobody talks about those because they don’t fit the narrative that internment camps are “racist.”

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Funny how they didn’t intern all the German Americans though... Or else they’d have had to intern half the white population.

[Lurker]

“Funny how they didn’t intern all the German Americans though... Or else they’d have had to intern half the white population.”

Doing that would have depopulated most of the American farm belt.

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[wildcard_redneck]

They were let out of the camp to wander around in the mountains to paint, the inhumanity.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Yes, the Great hero of the left, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

[Still Thinking]

Piss be upon him.

[tennmountainman]

It was a necessary security measure that had to be done.
Today we have many ads to track and monitor people.
We did not have that technology back then.

[ExSES]

Funny how they didn’t intern all the German Americans though... Or else they’d have had to intern half the white population.

It was recommended that Germans and Italians be interned as well however, it was determined to be totally unworkable due to the numbers involved. There were many Germans and Italians "Indefinitely Detained" during WW2 (with good cause due to their known activities).

[artichokegrower]

Wonder ifAOC realizes with her New Green Deal that during the last New Deal American citizens were placed in internment camps?

[null and void]

They were let out of the camp to wander around in the mountains to paint, the inhumanity.

Yeah, evil white guys at their worst.

[niteowl77]

“Funny how they didn’t intern all the German Americans though... Or else they’d have had to intern half the white population.”

Doing that would have depopulated most of the American farm belt.

The eastern part of Cedar County, Iowa - specifically around Lowden - experienced a drawn-out crapstorm during WWI that left German-born farmers and businessmen in fear of mob violence and retribution for a number of years. As usual, politicians stoked the fire.

Ironically, less than 30 years later a great number of the progeny of these same German-Americans willingly joined the US military and went to the "fatherland" and laid waste to it.

[Maine Mariner]

One point is missed entirely about internment. What happened to private property own by US citizens of Japanese decent? I don’t believe those US citizens were able to claim their property after the war.

[day10]

Germans?

Forget it, he’s rolling.

[QualityMan]

...like my maternal grandfather, whose last name was Kaiser. He emigrated and settled in southern Michigan just prior to 1914.

Even so, his family name did raise some eyebrows back in those days, as I was told when I was a lad.

[Ikemeister]

A bad day at Black Rock.

[ryderann]

My Italian father was on a list to go to a camp if that order came to pass. My Swedish mother was so worried. Thank goodness Sweden was nominally neutral or we all would have been sent off.

[artichokegrower]

Here on the California Central Coast especially in the Salinas Valley many Japanese-American families lost their farms, businesses and homes due to financial foreclosure during their internment. That some locals in the region benefited from this was a disgrace. Again all of this happened under a Democrat administration.