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The story I found to be the most interesting was "The Red, White, and Blue Badge". While reading this story I found it actually to be disturbing. I had never realized how the Japanese were treated outside of the camps. I had always knew that inside the camps they were treated poorly but I had not realized to this extent. The part of the story that stuck out to me was "Win the War, Kill a Jap". I cannot believe that there would be posters that depict wanting to kill the Japanese. This helped me to really see how poorly and looked down the Japanese people that lived in th U.S. really were. This story helped to open my eyes about the evil things that people wanted and did do to the Japanese Americans. One reason was the Japanese camps allowed
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