The Japanese Internment
It’s funny how it’s so hard to earn one’s trust but so easy to lose it. Just like when the bombing of Pearl Harbor took place it was so quick for the U.S to put all japanese-americans in war camps. Only reason for this would be a lost of trust, not so much towards the people, but towards their race. On Dec 7, 1941 occurred a surprise attack. Hundreds of japanese fighter planes flew over bombing the American Naval base at Pearl harbor Honolulu, Hawaii. This attack killed more than 2,300 people and destroyed the american battleship. The attack in the japanese defense was to neutralize the U.S pacific fleet. This was a very dark day in U.S history.
Two months after the attack our president who at the time was Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an order to put all japanese-americans in these internment camps. This was called the Japanese American Relocation. These people who had nothing to do with the bombing were forced to be held in those camps only because of their race. The U.S thought any
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Many sold their land and others just left their home including all of their things. Just imagine 120,000 japanese americans rounded up and divided into 10 internment camps or “relocation camps”. Half of these people were children. Now imagine how it would have felt being a child taken out of your house with your family and put into a camp with barbed wire and armed guns. Some of them died due to very little medical care and some were killed by the guards for resisting orders. I watched an interview of a man; George Takei who was in one of this camps and he shared his experience, what he went through, and how the camp changed his life completely. Reading about the japanese internment in articles online are upsetting enough, but actually hearing someone’s experience who was actually there in flesh just makes everything more real. This really happened,it is very serious, and it ruined and changed