Ken could not wait to go home and tell his parents how his day at school went. When he got home, he saw his parents packing their things into boxes. He did not know what was happening at the time, but he feels that things might never be the same again. Life of Japanese Americans was hard during World War II. Anyone who were Japanese ancestry that lives in America were placed into relocation camps and discriminated for something they did not do. The Japanese Americans remained loyal to American despite how they were treated. Over 127,000 Japanese Americans were placed into concentration camps (ushistory.org). Japanese Americans were accused of being loyal to Japan and spies for Japan (ushistory.org). American people were afraid that the Japanese Americans would sabotage America because there were many that lived in the West Coast. As a result, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sign ed Executive Order 9066 (Fredriksen). The Executive Order 9066 gave …show more content…
The internment camps were located in arid places which made the camps cold in the winter and too hot in the summer (ushistory.org). The arid climate made it hard for the Japanese Americans to grow plants (ushistory.org). Each family lived in a twenty by sixteen feet tar paper house that only include cots and stoves only (Fredriksen). Everyone in the camps had to share toilet, shower, dining room, and laundry (Fredriksen). Even though their life is not the same, the Japanese American tried to do things they would normally do before they were placed into internment camps. Children would go to school and learn while the adults work (Fredriksen). Adults can be a farmer, teacher, cook, and making camouflage nets (Fredriksen). After a day of working, the adults would get paid five dollars to take home to their families (ushistory.org). For their pastime, Japanese Americans would play baseball, join organized dances, and Boy Scout activities