[Noslrac]

My grandfather who was a POW in the philipines and made it through working as a slave in coal mines for japanese companies still around and other nice places, as well as surviving the bataan death march didn't get any reparations. I doubt these people had it that tough.

Noslrac

[glc1173@aol.com]

Their internment just meant that Japanese-Americans weren't getting shot at in malarial swamps by their ethnic kinsmen like other Americans were. What a "deprivation."

[tubebender]

My best friend from 1951 to 54 was Masao S . He and his parents went to the camp at Alturas from the Fresno area where Jim Rob rules this forumn. Masao became a CPA and his brother returned to farming. I had 2 brothers 1 sister and both brother in laws in the Service.

[07055]

It's been 60 years, but the pain of destroying her mother's kimonos and anything else of Japanese origin still stings Betty Haruko Nishi.

Time to move on, Betty. The statute of limitations for whining expired some time ago.

Despite what the news media tries to convince us, most of the internees were *not* United States citizens. They were Japanese nationals.

Betty has already been compensated more than my father was for fighting her countrymen, who would have raped the United States just like they raped Nanking if we had lost the war.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

boo hoo hoo. you got shipped away . . . at least you weren't shipped away, gassed, and sent to the ovens OR sitting in downtown Hiroshima when a certain drop was dropped. You should thank God that it wasn't worse.

Death to whining!

[Howie66]

I suppose that we should all be all broken up about this, right?

Unless I've missed something, I still have yet to hear so much as an apology from the JAP Government. Until such time as we get that, the JAPS can KMA.

Long Live "CHESTY" PULLER!!!

[Arleigh]

"I hope the same thing doesn't happen to the Middle Easterners," said Dave Tatsuno, whose family was forced to sell their store's merchandise and move to Topaz in the Utah desert. "Most of them are innocent like we were. The country has to be careful to never again fall into the trap of condemning a people due to ancestry."

This relentless barrage of news stories to make us feel empathy for Middle Easterners is starting to reek of a premeditated, government-instigated propaganda campaign.

Am I the only person who's feeling a trifle manipulated?

[cynicom]

I tire of the whining by the Japanese-americans. Om Dec 7, three of the same had the choice of being Americans or Japanese, they chose to aid their brethern. You will never hear or see them mention this, never. The three betrayed their adopted country.

[TEXICAN II]

Just too bad that many lost property & money. The obvious need for this justifiable act of self-preservation is blemished by this. The horrific abuse & deaths of our troops in Japanese captivity certainly made it hard to reconsider what happened. I think the passage of time & especially the passing of our veterans actually makes the discussion possible-survivors of Battan are hard pressed to feel sorry for people who only lost a farm or store & went away to camp for the duration. Those wonderful guys who went to Italy & fought so bravely are an entirely different matter-I've met a couple of them & they are just as special as any other veteran of WWII. Individuals make mistakes & so might entire nations-but I don't enjoy the idiotic whinning-self-respecting people get on with their lives.

My dad had some scarry tales of mob violence in Houston,Tx in reaction to Pearl Harbor-thus he was of the opinion the removals were also intended to protect the Japanese-Americans. Have no idea if he was correct.

[cynicom]

Does anyone here remember seeing pictures of Japanese-Philippinos with their armbands on, greeting the invading Japanese, in 1941???? Bet not...They lined up with their brethern nearly to a man.

[balls]

Japanese-Americans Recall The Pain Of World War II Internment 60 Years Later

Don't they bring this up every year? They need to be reminded annually of the vicious and cruel torture their homeland meted out to our allied forces.

[Enemy Of The State]

boo hoo hoo. you got shipped away . . . at least you weren't shipped away, gassed, and sent to the ovens OR sitting in downtown Hiroshima when a certain drop was dropped. You should thank God that it wasn't worse.

With all due respect, this is right up there with one of the most ignorant statements I have ever heard.

these people may have been Japanese but they were Japanese-Americans!. Apparently your not aware that the Japanese-AMERICAN regiment that fought in the European theater (given the title, butter heads) during warII were the most highly declarated group of soldiers during the War in Europe and what did they come home to? Nothing! The US government had seized everything from them....

[Young Rhino]

At least the Japs didn't have to endure the "torture" of being confined at Gitmo. /sarcasm

[Young Rhino]

The U.S. government did not formally apologize or make reparations to internment survivors until 1989.

In general, I'm still waiting for any nation to formally apologize or make reparations to the U.S. How about those Brits for the War of 1812? The Japanese for Pearl Harbor? The Germans, Italians, and French for their roles in World Wars? Anyone for Iranian hostage crisis, the 1983 bombing of our barracks, the Somalia fiasco, the attack on the U.S.S. Cole, or the WTC attack?

The U.S. is the only country that beats the hell out someone when attacks, then proceeds to give the clymers financial assistance to rebuild. The movie The Mouse that Roared is still applicable today.

[ken21]

i had an instructor in college who was born in a california japanese internment camp.

he was very bitter about it, in a quiet way, but got even by banging white chicks from his classes. he kept a list in his college office.

[truth_seeker]

Japanese origin people weren't alone. Italians were sent to Montana, and some Germans were rounded up. War is hell, and mistakes are made.

It is easy to determine, in hindsight, that many loyal American citizens, of Japanese ancestry, got rounded up. But it was also a fact that subversives were found among the internees.

My father-in-law, the son of Italian immigrants, jumped into Germany and earned a purple heart. He never bellyached about the Italians interned in Montana.

If it becomes necessary, I will support rounding up Muslims, for the same reason as Japanese, Italian and German origin people were interned during WWII. It is called pre-emptive self-defense, during conflict. It is not a question of absolute and perfect application of laws and rights, to later be evaluated in hindsight. It is a matter of immediate survival, and protection against vigilante violence, as well. Fire away.

[E Rocc]

Two little known facts that demonstrate that the internment had more to do with Earl Warren and other unscrupulous politicians pandering to the ignorant than it had to do with any real security concerns:

1) Ten people were convicted of spying for Japan during World War II. None were of Japanese descent.

2) Hawaiians of Japanese descent were not interned.

-Eric

[Clemenza]

Gotta love how many of my fellow palefaces on this thread go about condemning internment victims without considering how THEY would feel if they had their property confiscated (by FDR) and their families placed in internment camps.

Then again, these people are similar to the racist Californicators who cheered when the Asian exclusion acts were passed and when many of their neighbors were interned by FDR with the collaberation of RINO Earl Warren.

[dfwgator]

If we did to the American citizens of German descent what we did to the Japanese Americans, Ike would have been interned himself rather than leading the Allies.

[unamused]

Japanese-Americans Recall The Pain Of World War II Internment 60 Years Later

American-Americans recall the pain of Pearl Harbor deaths 60 years later...how much they gonna' pay us...