Japanese relocation camps
For assigned blog number 5 i researched Japanese Relotation Camps. On February 19th 1942 President Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066. The order provided that some 120,000 people of Japanese descent living in the US were removed from their homes and placed in interment camps. The US reason for this was that they thought that some of the Japnanese decent were spying for Japan. 2/3's of them were however american citizens and about half were children. The only people acutally caught spying for Japan were caucasion and none were Japanese.
The camp life was very hard. Many didn't get to bring many possesions and had a short time to be able to leave their homes. Lots died from bad medical care and very high stress emtionally.
About 2 years later Public Proclamation number 21, allowed internees to return to their homes. They had been asked two questions. Will you serve in the armed forces or help out in any way? and they were asked will you form an alliance with the US and help defend us?
Some saw the camps as concentration camps and a violation of the writ of Habeuos Corpus. Others saw it necessary after Pearl Harbor. At the end of the war some remained in the US and rebuilt their lives, others though never forgave us and returned to Japan.
I am sure many American's are still embarrassed of what we did to inncocent "Americans" that just had Japanese decent. That is very sad our country would do someting like that but they did have a reason to be concerned and wanted to put the well being of our great nation before anything else.
This is where the camps were.
images from google.
Comments
Well done Michael!