My FIL was the founder of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.
Most of those put in camp (over 200,000) were American citizens (Nisei) - not Issei.
They could only take to camp what they could carry. Many lost everything else.
Those from Terminal Island even had their houses razed to the ground by our government while they were interred.
Many of the Japanese-Americans in camp volunteered for the US Army, and most of those became part of the segregated 100/442nd Combat Infantry Battalion.
The 100/442nd was the most decorated American unit in US history. Their motto was "Go For Broke", since they were seeking to prove their allegiance to the US. This is the same battalion that rescued the Texas Lost Battalion in the Vosges mountains - when previous Allied attempts had failed.
Upon departure from Internment camps, each family was given $20 and a one-way ticket to their destination.
There were very, very few "no no boys" who answered no to questions 27 and 28 of the "loyalty questions" they were forced to fill out in camp. Those answering no were primarily upset at their very own country for disowning them and treating them like garbage.
Each family in camp was put in a one-room plywood barrack with one bare lightbulb in the middle. Their "beds" were burlap bags stuffed with straw. Latrines, showers, and kitchens were communal. There was no concept of privacy.
These people were not "the enemy", as FDR so traitorously made it look.
There was no excuse for those internment camps. None.
I am sorry for your hurt. Possibly you will never get over it. But, your emotion disables you from discussing the matter.
You ask for respect in part because of the service of Japanese-Americans during WWII and say I am full of crap. I had three uncles who served during WWII, two Italian-American and one German-American. They fought against their very own ancestral nationality. My father served during the Korean War. I during the Viet Nam War. My son during the Iraq/Afghanistan War. And, you say I am full of crap. But, instead of me saying you are full of crap, I say you are hurt. To me, you don’t or maybe can’t care about treating others with the respect you demand for yourself.
By the way, did you serve in the military or did you raise a son who served in the military? (If you served, I take back everything I said about you and will simply say instead that you have earned the right to your opinion.)
In the case of the 100th Infantry, let’s take a complete look:
1,400 Japanese Americans served in that unit, out of a population of 125,000; or, about 1 percent.
In comparison, 11 million served in the armed forces overall, of a population of 132 million; or, about 8 percent.
What are we to make of this? That 1,400 Japanese Americans served with distinction; or, that only 1 Japanese American served for every 8 Non-Japanese Americans, relative to their number in the population?
This coin turns out to have two very different sides!
Here I’m going to repeat myself a bit: When it was determined that the rights of Japanese-Americans had been harmed (by a negligence on the part of the government in prosecuting its case), a payment was made. Sorry the payment was a flat payment, and not tied to the actual harms suffered by individuals, such as the particularly unfortunate cases you mention. The flat payments miscommunicated that the harm was done to a race, when differentiated payments would have communicated that the harm was done to individuals.