Secondly, the internment of the Japanese Americans subjects civilians, men, mothers, women, children, and elderly, American citizens to conditions that were more suitable for soldiers and war criminals. Close to 120,000 people were kept in ten camps, that means around 11,000 people a camp. And they detained men, women, and children. Farewell to Manzanar, an autobiography of Jeanne Wakatsuki, someone who grew up in the camps details the conditions that the Japanese American internees were kept in as well as the hardships. She told of, “Many families weren’t as lucky as ours and suffered months of anguish while trying to arrange transfers from one camp to another.” This may not sound like much but could you imagine being separated from your siblings,
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First of all, “Because the camps were not yet completed when Roosevelt signed the executive order, the Japanese prisoners were held in temporary shelters such as stables in racetracks.” Now it’s obvious that Manzanar wasn’t ready for the people as stated in the book itself, some people were relocated so early that they had nowhere to go? And the obvious solution was in a horse stable? Also, “Japanese-American World War I veterans that served for the United States were also sent to the internment camps.” Now these people served their country honorably and should be the last people that would be thought to be spies, yet they are sent to an internment camp as if they were? Despite their service towards their country? Lastly, to facts to back up the conditions that Jeanne detailed in her story, “The camps were located in areas that made farming difficult and the prisoners ate a lot of army grub-style food. [...] It was often too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter making life very difficult and uncomfortable.” These people were uprooted from their homes and forced into the conditions for two years just because of the slight possibility they could be spying on the United States. May I also add that, “More than 66% of the Japanese-Americans sent to the internment camps in the spring of 1942 were born in the United States and many had never been to Japan.” The internment of many of these people were cruel and
First of all, “Because the camps were not yet completed when Roosevelt signed the executive order, the Japanese prisoners were held in temporary shelters such as stables in racetracks.” Now it’s obvious that Manzanar wasn’t ready for the people as stated in the book itself, some people were relocated so early that they had nowhere to go? And the obvious solution was in a horse stable? Also, “Japanese-American World War I veterans that served for the United States were also sent to the internment camps.” Now these people served their country honorably and should be the last people that would be thought to be spies, yet they are sent to an internment camp as if they were? Despite their service towards their country? Lastly, to facts to back up the conditions that Jeanne detailed in her story, “The camps were located in areas that made farming difficult and the prisoners ate a lot of army grub-style food. [...] It was often too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter making life very difficult and uncomfortable.” These people were uprooted from their homes and forced into the conditions for two years just because of the slight possibility they could be spying on the United States. May I also add that, “More than 66% of the Japanese-Americans sent to the internment camps in the spring of 1942 were born in the United States and many had never been to Japan.” The internment of many of these people were cruel and