[danmar]

...one thing comes to mind...why is this news now?! How long one has to go on with this story, what's the reason behind this?. It is a non issue, it belong in the dust bin of History, period. Life goes on, move on...get a meaningfull life if you can! Put it to rest for crying out loud, don't beat on a dead horse!.

[StoptheDonkey]

The Japanese were treated to "sitting out the war" in Colorado..Later they were unjustly paid $20,000 each while American mothers who lost their sons fighting the Japanese and Germans during WW2 were paid a measly $5,000. Have you ever read about how the South was treated after our civil war, you Japanese were treated far, far better.

But that was then and this is now. I for one am tired of hearing how we owe interment and holocaust victims, when in fact they owe us for drafting millions of Americans and sending them to war to "set the world free" ( although we don't appear to have succeeded ).

Peace !!!!

[Squantos]

War is hell........all involved lose something. My suggestion is that they grow stronger from the experience. Fairness today should not be based on America paying for their fathers sins IMHO...... Just ensure it never happens again.

Stay Safe !

[metesky]

Considering the circumstances post 12/07/41, the US was 100% correct to inter Japanese-Americans, probably as the woman in the article says as much for their safety as ours.

Where the US went wrong was in stealing their property without compensation.

What the US is doing wrong today is not rounding up all illegals from terrorist sponsoring countries.

[junta]

"White Man Bad" we know.

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[VaBthang4]

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

They'll get over it.

[Thorondir]

Waaaaaaaaah! $hit happens when your people sneak-attack the best, doesn't it? Don't look here for sympathy, especially after the sick, inhuman actions of the Japs in Manchuria, Nanking and Baatan. KMA, punks!

[antaresequity]

I question the timing of this...why is this being brought up now?

[SuperLuminal]

Whining scum!

[fogarty]

And what happened to Americans who had emigrated to Japan before WWII? I am sure the Japanese government and people treated them only with kindness and open-arms.

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[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

Let's not forget the 225,000 Americans killed in the WWII !

[MissAmericanPie]

I really do not understand how the internment of the Japanese can be equated with the need that may arise to intern Muslims, it's a completely different situation.

The Japanese were wrongly rounded up because of their ethnic origin, the Muslims may have to be rounded up because of their violent cult religion. Not all Arabs are Muslim, but all Muslims are Islamic and avowed enemies of the USofA.

[Helms]

More handwring over this, almost an annual event. Great timing by the media again, ugly, ugly America.

[ZULU]

What Japanese foreign nationals may have suffered in America during WWII was unfortunate but unavoidable. ALL countries interred foreign nationals from belligerant powers unless there was very strong evidence that they were politcal refugees or enemies of that foreign government.

What Japanese American citizens were subjected to during WW2 is totally indefensible. Once a person becomes an American citizen and takes an oath of allegiance to this country, or is a citizen by birth, they should be treated with the assumption that they are loyal Americans. We never interred German Americans or Italian Americans. The only reason the Japanese were selected was a racial one.

It was wrong. Japanese American soldiers served with distinction in Europe at the same time their own families were in internment camps here in the U.S. Simply unforgiveable.