Posted on 09/20/2021 7:45:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The asians are still discriminated by the ‘liberals’ at university’s by being denied entry even when qualified. Those that do get in are doing so much better then others.
Star Trek George Takei still supports the democrats after he and his family were imprisoned by the the democrats.
He has not learned a thing.
Thanks for posting this.
My step-daughter is Japanese. She knew little about the Japanese internment camps when she was here going to to college (knew quite a bit about the atomic bombs being dropped - but that may be because she went to high school in Europe), so we did some research together. Afterwards she said “people made do the best they could and moved on”. A stoic attitude, but one that seems to be strongly expressed in almost all the Japanese I have met.
Many of the Japanese in the Western camps moved to Chicago and there are still many Japanese in that city. They’ve been a good addition to the city. Just like many people in the US.
Hopefully she’s coming back to the US next year to work on another degree.
Do you have a number that were doing this? Estimate?
The author was Assistant to the Director, National Security Agency, so he's not just whistling Dixie. He testified in some of the Congressional hearings, but for political reasons was ignored.
The book is an unfinished manuscript, so it is a bit choppy at times, but nonetheless it's an essential read.
What an ignorant statement. Wow. Some FReepers never fail to "impress".
Some also enlisted and fought in the Pacific. A school pal of mines Nisei father enlisted in the Army in 1940. He spoke and read Japanese fluently. In Oct 1942 he was assigned to the 164th Infantry Regiment on Guadalcanal as an interpreter. After
Guadalcanal, he volunteered for duty with Merrill’s Marauders in Burma. He was medically discharged in late 1944 for diseases he got while in Burma.
All this time his parents, grand parents, aunts, uncles and cousins were being held in the detention center at Heart Mountain, Wyoming.
I agree whole heartedly. My Dad was also “detained” by the government during WWII and sent to Europe where he got shot at. Japanese detainees were never put in as much peril as he was. When that was done, he was scheduled to go to Japan and get shot at there when, as the libs like to put it, “something happened”. A couple of weeks later they cut him loose and sent him home so he could restart his life. It was a trying time for everyone and of course mistakes were made (but not as bad as the mistakes being made these days). The Japanese detainees were compensated, better than my Dad was BTW, and IMHO they should just STFU and drop it. Enough already.
‘Many of those interned had never been to Japan and didn’t speak Japanese.”
Many others did, and some were spying on us. On top of that, the camps were probably the SAFEST place for them to be (if staying in the US), as one might say that Japan and Japanese people were not particularly well-liked at that time.
Cogent
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