I have written about the Japanese Situation in 1941 an the monster coming out of the ocean.There is another story that is seldom told.If it is told it is told in tones that mimic the Native Americans lives.
In the years of what became World War II,America rounded up Lifelong American citizens.These folks had no criminal record.They had excellent work records.Many were long time business owners with families and friends.Many had homes with the usual things any other American families enjoyed.
These people were not all new immigrants.They were integrated into American culture as Americans.
Some had ancestors going back to the building along with Chinese that provided labor for railroads decades before.others had families that left the old cultures behind and adapted the new life in the wonderful USA.It was a promise of anew world and a chance at a new life for the descendants.
Then one day in December7th,1941 a day that will live in infamy said President Roosevelt.The memories of that war will be selectivly be remembered.The Nazi camps will take the front stage as
horrible deathcamps.That is undeniably true.The Japanese prison camps of burma would later become the subject of movies,books and soldiers descriptions.That is true also.
I have yet to see the long hidden reports of the good people that were unjustly penned up as animals for the paranoid reasons of people fueled by propaganda.
Japanese folks were placed into these camps and later showed their worth as soldiers in what I think was the 144th. The interned people that were finally released as Free American Citizens went on to
do their best to rebuild shattered lives.They did not attack others and were unce again citizens.
Can you even imagine the mental and emotional trauma left in the hearts of those folks.
I do understand the war was with Japan.I don't think it was with Americans that were of Japanese Ancestry.Most imigrant descendents that call themselves Americans also have distant relations overseas.
Anyone can be labeled an enemy of the state if there is a need for the masses to be focused in a particular direction that provides a little substrafuge to what is actually happening...ANYONE!
There are few photos of American Internment Camps Apparently.
RJP
In the years of what became World War II,America rounded up Lifelong American citizens.These folks had no criminal record.They had excellent work records.Many were long time business owners with families and friends.Many had homes with the usual things any other American families enjoyed.
These people were not all new immigrants.They were integrated into American culture as Americans.
Some had ancestors going back to the building along with Chinese that provided labor for railroads decades before.others had families that left the old cultures behind and adapted the new life in the wonderful USA.It was a promise of anew world and a chance at a new life for the descendants.
Then one day in December7th,1941 a day that will live in infamy said President Roosevelt.The memories of that war will be selectivly be remembered.The Nazi camps will take the front stage as
horrible deathcamps.That is undeniably true.The Japanese prison camps of burma would later become the subject of movies,books and soldiers descriptions.That is true also.
I have yet to see the long hidden reports of the good people that were unjustly penned up as animals for the paranoid reasons of people fueled by propaganda.
Japanese folks were placed into these camps and later showed their worth as soldiers in what I think was the 144th. The interned people that were finally released as Free American Citizens went on to
do their best to rebuild shattered lives.They did not attack others and were unce again citizens.
Can you even imagine the mental and emotional trauma left in the hearts of those folks.
I do understand the war was with Japan.I don't think it was with Americans that were of Japanese Ancestry.Most imigrant descendents that call themselves Americans also have distant relations overseas.
Anyone can be labeled an enemy of the state if there is a need for the masses to be focused in a particular direction that provides a little substrafuge to what is actually happening...ANYONE!
There are few photos of American Internment Camps Apparently.
RJP
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