[goodnesswins]

It was probably a PANIC dummie...sometimes humans do dumb things when they are scared....besides there was an attack on the West Coast of Washington, also....that is little talked of.....by the Japanese. AND, most Japanese got their property back after the War...some did not...I KNOW BECAUSE MY In-Laws lived in a farming area populated with Japanese who went to internment camps - and they talk with disgust of what SOME people did to Japanese property, but at the same time speak of those who got their property back. WAR IS CRUEL.

[socal_parrot]

It was probably a PANIC

No kidding, kind of like now? Just because some (not most) of the Japanese got their property back doesn't make it right. There were German u-boats off the east coast also and nobody rounded them up.

[DoveTurnedHawk]

You are simply mistaken, goodnesswins. There was no military or other justification for interning American citizens simply because they looked different. Blaming war hysteria, while convenient, is no excuse.

Interning our own citizens, who proved their loyalty hundreds of times over when they formed their own combat teams (the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, formed entirely of Japanese Americans, is the most decorated military unit on a per capita basis in American history), was against all of the principles of this country. Principles which we were fighting for in WWII, and in this war as well.

DTH