To: RCW2001
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."
To: glc1173@aol.com
My neighbor's family lost everything in Seattle and was placed in a camp. He, just getting out of highschool enlisted and fought through the Italian campaign and the Battle of the Buldge. Pretty soft, huh.
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02/18/2002 5:10:57 PM PST by
JimSEA
To: glc1173@aol.com
No they were getting shot in the freezing forests of Europe instead. The reason that the internmment was wrong was that it stigmatized an entire group of Americans because of their race. Sure the some fo the Issei and Nissei were scum but many fought valiantly for the United States. And I do not see how children like Norman Mineta and George Tekei were security risks.
To: glc1173@aol.com
Incorrect assumption. Many Japanese Americans WERE being shot at in malarial swamps like their American kinsmen. It's just your own myopic view of history that prevents your acknowledgement of the role of the Military Intelligence Service's Japanese Americans (who enlisted FROM concentration camps called MANZANAR).
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