Laws are put into place to create structured control over a society. But are laws brought about due to fear? When a law is created is it not for the greater good of the majority? There is always the guilty and there is always the innocent. The innocent must be protected somehow and that job is expected to be fulfilled by our government. When one group attacks another, a gear begins to turn in people’s minds and emotions begin to stir. Fear controls a human like no other emotion. But with fear comes hatred and misunderstandings. All the reasons are left to interpretation as to why these acts have been committed. Yet, ultimately the laws have been passed to set barriers of safety providing us a crutch to lean on when we do not know what else
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The very first stanza “/They 've sunk the posts deep into the ground/ They 've strung out wires all the way around./With machine gun nests just over there, /And sentries and soldiers everywhere./ (Anonymous). The government of the United States of America issues an appropriate amount of protection as they are dealing with a military that has no reserves in sending extreme methods to exterminate Americans including Japanese-Americans. All of the boundaries and guns were necessary just in case of an outside attack. Even though there were electric wires keeping the internees in, these fences and snipers in towers also double as protection for any enemies such as kamikaze pilots attempting to penetrate the grounds. The kamikaze pilots were taught to be upstanding soldiers and give everything for their missions and country as well as the ultimate sacrifice; their own lives. No man, woman, or child was to get in the way or prohibit them from achieving a successful …show more content…
At present time most who are surviving internees were very young, such as the famous George Takei and Bill Shishima who was twelve years old at the time (Huffington Post). Their age could very well affect their mindset and memories on the whole ordeal. Children do not understand the full extent of the possibilities of war, so being uprooted from their home-even for their protection- would leave nothing but ill feelings but not one hundred percent accurate memories. “/We know we’re punished- though we’ve committed no crime,/ … /To be locked up in a concentration camp./ (Anonymous). James Sakamoto, a highly regarded Japanese American even speaks out during the internment processing of his loyalty to America in the Seattle Star Newspaper, “…"we will stand firm in our resolution that even if America may ‘disown’ us we will never ‘disown’ America.” These camps were a precautionary measure and to compare the internment camps to concentration camps is a bit of an insult. The concentration camps were set up for mass executions which the United States government had no intention of carrying out such unchristian like acts. During an interview a student asks Ken Mochizuki if the Japanese were treated like Jewish people during Hitler’s reign. Mochizuki answers, ‘No. No Japanese Americans were executed, although some were killed in
The very first stanza “/They 've sunk the posts deep into the ground/ They 've strung out wires all the way around./With machine gun nests just over there, /And sentries and soldiers everywhere./ (Anonymous). The government of the United States of America issues an appropriate amount of protection as they are dealing with a military that has no reserves in sending extreme methods to exterminate Americans including Japanese-Americans. All of the boundaries and guns were necessary just in case of an outside attack. Even though there were electric wires keeping the internees in, these fences and snipers in towers also double as protection for any enemies such as kamikaze pilots attempting to penetrate the grounds. The kamikaze pilots were taught to be upstanding soldiers and give everything for their missions and country as well as the ultimate sacrifice; their own lives. No man, woman, or child was to get in the way or prohibit them from achieving a successful …show more content…
At present time most who are surviving internees were very young, such as the famous George Takei and Bill Shishima who was twelve years old at the time (Huffington Post). Their age could very well affect their mindset and memories on the whole ordeal. Children do not understand the full extent of the possibilities of war, so being uprooted from their home-even for their protection- would leave nothing but ill feelings but not one hundred percent accurate memories. “/We know we’re punished- though we’ve committed no crime,/ … /To be locked up in a concentration camp./ (Anonymous). James Sakamoto, a highly regarded Japanese American even speaks out during the internment processing of his loyalty to America in the Seattle Star Newspaper, “…"we will stand firm in our resolution that even if America may ‘disown’ us we will never ‘disown’ America.” These camps were a precautionary measure and to compare the internment camps to concentration camps is a bit of an insult. The concentration camps were set up for mass executions which the United States government had no intention of carrying out such unchristian like acts. During an interview a student asks Ken Mochizuki if the Japanese were treated like Jewish people during Hitler’s reign. Mochizuki answers, ‘No. No Japanese Americans were executed, although some were killed in