Some of the Japanese men even joined the army because it was the only way to get out of the camp. “The only way out was joinin’ the army. And supposedly, some men went out for the army, signed on, and ended up flyin’ to Japan with a bomb” (Shinoda) it’s here that you get a sense of how desperate these men were to get out that they’d betray their own homeland for freedom. This was the first instance of Japanese American soldiers, “Japanese Americans were now permitted to form a special segregated infantry outfit – the unit would come to be called the 442nd Infantry Regimental Combat Team.” (“The War: Japanese Americans”, 2007). Along with trying to regain freedom they did this out of love and loyalty for their new home as stated by a quote from a soldier, “My priority was to try to show the American people that we are just as loyal as anybody else.” (The War: Japanese Americans, 2007). It’s not till the next couple lines of Kenji that you really feel their pain of this action, “ That 15 kiloton blast, put an end to the war pretty fast, two cities were blown to bits” (Shinoda). The pain and suffering didn’t stop there, when the war was over the Japanese were released from the camps and were not greeted by a warm welcome back at their homes, “These people had trashed every room, smashed in the windows and bashed in the doors, written on the walls and the floor, “Japs not welcome anymore””
Some of the Japanese men even joined the army because it was the only way to get out of the camp. “The only way out was joinin’ the army. And supposedly, some men went out for the army, signed on, and ended up flyin’ to Japan with a bomb” (Shinoda) it’s here that you get a sense of how desperate these men were to get out that they’d betray their own homeland for freedom. This was the first instance of Japanese American soldiers, “Japanese Americans were now permitted to form a special segregated infantry outfit – the unit would come to be called the 442nd Infantry Regimental Combat Team.” (“The War: Japanese Americans”, 2007). Along with trying to regain freedom they did this out of love and loyalty for their new home as stated by a quote from a soldier, “My priority was to try to show the American people that we are just as loyal as anybody else.” (The War: Japanese Americans, 2007). It’s not till the next couple lines of Kenji that you really feel their pain of this action, “ That 15 kiloton blast, put an end to the war pretty fast, two cities were blown to bits” (Shinoda). The pain and suffering didn’t stop there, when the war was over the Japanese were released from the camps and were not greeted by a warm welcome back at their homes, “These people had trashed every room, smashed in the windows and bashed in the doors, written on the walls and the floor, “Japs not welcome anymore””