[Congressman Billybob]

I wrote too quickly, and stand corrected. Under the earlier law, some of the Nissei were compensated at about 10 cents on the dollar for their property losses, but nothing for the imprisonment without charges. The latter came later, and applied as I said before only to the actual internees who had survived until 1992, as I recall.

Billybob

[VetsRule]

I wrote too quickly, and stand corrected. Under the earlier law, some of the Nissei were compensated at about 10 cents on the dollar for their property losses, but nothing for the imprisonment without charges.

The number of internees who were compensated in 1948-49 was an extremely small number, IIRC, and as you correctly note, it was for a very limited (and uniformly undervalued) amount of property.

But kudos to you, CBB, for remembering what America is supposed to stand for, yes, even in times of war. Especially in times of war. The Constitution is not a document to be casually discarded at the first sign of hardship. And not even Hawaii was in any real danger of invasion, much less the West Coast. That would have been a logistical impossibility, and every senior military and civilian official knew it.

VR