“———we only interned Italian and German nationals, where with Japan we apparently interned Japanese that had already obtained citizenship-——”
The nisei,or American born Japanese, were also detained-—they didn’t obtain citizenship,they were citizens at birth. Then we turned around and drafted them,for heaven’s sake.An absolute disgrace.
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Years ago I asked a Japanese American (who talked like any Southern redneck because that’s how he was raised) what it was like for him & his family immediately following Pearl Harbor.
He replied, “Well.....let’s just say that on December 8th 1941, we all became Irish-Americans with yellow jaundice!”