Internment Camp Letter

Hey Dave, I wanted to send you this letter to tell you about most of my experience in this crazy internment camp. This internment camp is like a community but it is big and it can be scary at some points. My home here is really small, I live with my family and this other family of 4. Our home is a one room apartment that doesn’t have a bathroom so I have to walk so long just to use the bathroom. This internment camp is so big, it sits on 6,200 acres of land which is extremely big when you’re here. This internment Camp is fenced with barbed wires which was really scary seeing when we arrived here. The U.S. Army took more than 120,000 Japanese Americans from our west coast homes. When we arrived in the Camp called Manzanar the guards had to check us to make sure we weren’t sneaking in anything dangerous in the camps like any type of weapons. The U.S. said that the reason they put us here was because they didn’t want the Japanese planning any more attacks after what happened at Pearl Harbor. The line for food at night is the longest wait …show more content…
It took us about 4 months to actually get used to our small and cramped apartment. I was told by one of my friends at school that the U.S. would keep us in these camp to up to two more months which means I wouldn’t be able to see you in a while. I’m guessing they think that the Japanese are going to invade the west coast of America because there was a large population of Japanese. Yesterday, we went to the waiting line for our food and I saw a man trying to escape through the barbed wire fence which didn’t go well. The guards pulled him away and arrested him for trying to escape the internment camps. Most of the Japanese Americans In the camps were born in America and haven’t even been to japan before. When I try to sleep at night it is hard to because of all of the humidity in the