Essay On Japanese Internment

There are many lessons to learn from our history in the US, such as those we learned from Japanese Internment in the early 1940’s; but why should we learn and take from these lessons? You see, there were 110,000-120,000 japanese put into internment camps in 1942, and it’s important for us to understand how the U.S. mistreated these people. Learning from this could be essential to forming our young and old citizens view on how we should treat minorities. By having an understanding of this historical event we could be preventing future discrimination. In order to prevent these events from repeating itself, as well as inform and educate citizens about minorities, discrimination, and what we can do to better this country, we need to learn from our history. In 1941, the Japanese sent an attack on Pearl Harbor, bombing and killing 2403 US citizens. This was done to damage U.S. units and prevent the country from putting a stop to their plans to take Southeast Asia. Little did they know what this meant for japanese citizens of

As there were many japanese american soldiers fighting for the U.S. at the time. These soldiers had to watch their families be taken and put into camps if said family was not born in the U.S.. Combat veteran Norman Saburo says that his mother was held in a camp, but not his siblings (Saburo, 6). Though they were not his, many many children were placed into camps. In fact, over half of the internment camps population was made up of children. The U.S. did not respond to this in a positive way. Many americans thought badly of the japanese, and were sure that what they were doing was right. Though, of course there were those who opposed to this mistreatment. Today, these safety measures that our government acted upon, show that we still have a long way to go before we are a nation of unity. How can we call ourself a melting pot country if we segragate those who have a different pigmentation in their