[Kobyashi1942]

Were they Japanese or Americans? Hmmmmmm? The 442nd were Americans of Japanese descent fighting in Europe.

A little history leesson for you: While they may have been U.S. citizens the United States army, government and people saw them not as citizens of this great nation, but as enemy aliens. That is why the violated their civil rights like no other group has had done to them in this last century. As bad as the blacks had it in the South during the years of Jim Crowe they were never THROWN INTO A CONCENTRATION CAMP.

Just because their ancestors were Japanese we committed unspeakable crimes against them, regardless of the fact they were US citizens. Shame on you!

[wimpycat]

I'm not the one who needs a history lesson. You seem to think we're all racists or something. You must be suffering from some sort of overly self-defensive syndrome that prompts you to pre-emptively attack other people. You're the one who admires our WWII enemies so much you dedicate your screenname to one of them. Remember which side your bread is buttered on. You keep bringing up Japanese-Americans as if nobody knows about them, but yes, we all know about how they were treated during WWII, (especially after a Japanese-American traitor was instrumental in aiding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor), but I wouldn't rank it up there with the blacks, who were enslaved or the Native Americans. Puhleeze.

But you are not singing the praises of them, or the 442nd, but of the "self-sacrifice and bravery" of the Imperial Japanese. Look at how they treated their concentration camp victims and tell us all again how culturally superior the Japanese were to the Americans. Compare photos of Japanese-Americans in their camps with Allied POWs in Japanese camps and see for yourself who valued human life or basic human rights more. There weren't any Japanese-American living skeletons in the U.S. You didn't see them beaten to death and starved to death or walking around with not even enough flesh on their bones to keep their bodies and souls together.

The internment camps is a shameful chapter in U.S. history, but that is nothing, nothing compared to the complete lack of humanity on the part of the Imperial Japanese. The Japanese to this day don't teach their students about how they treated their prisoners. It isn't taught in their schools. We acknowledge our shameful acts much more than they do theirs.