[rockfish59]

yes, i want to know too how cruel it was in the camps where the japanese were given food, shelter, schools, gardens, health care, etc.
who cares about the slave labor, torture, starvation, beatings, murder and atrocities they inflicted on the americans, brits, & chinese?
hell, their CIVIL RIGHTS were violated when they were interned by those mean american captors!
the mean americans got just what they deserved when the 'goettge patrol' was ambushed on guadalcanal and the bodies were hacked to pieces by samurai swords.
who cares about the chinese babies who were tossed in the air and bayonetted in nanking?
the poor japanese internees had to actually chop up firewood for their wood stoves. what brutality!
we demand reparations NOW!!!
</sarcasm

[billybudd]

All of that is true, but the Japanese here were Americans - they didn't have anything to do with the Japanese government. I was just saying that it's a bad analogy to compare the internment camps here with the POW treatment in Japan. A good analogy would be to compare how Japan treated Americans living there (I doubt there were any), or to compare how we treated Japanese POWs vs. their treatment of ours.