Will you stop for a moment and consider that today is Japanese Internment Remembrance Day?
9 Answers to "Will you stop for a moment and consider that today is Japanese Internment Remembrance Day?"
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Sorry but I think it was good policy to do that at the time.. Just about every country did this - it was hardly a US only thing. Japan simply enslaved and killed their people from other countries. Would that have been better?
The Japanese had a very active spy and sabatuer network here. We could have lost the war had it gone unchecked. (Germans did too). Take a moment to research what these countries did to those in nations they conquered. Ever hear, for instance, of the rape of Nanking?
Second guessing is a fools game. We did what had to be done and those in the camps suffered no worse than the average soldier who also lived away from home in a barracks.Like (3)
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Somehow I knew you'd be defending the internment of the innocent.
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And what the heck has the Rape of Nanking (horrible as it was) have to do with locking up so family who just wanted to run a small store and continue the life they'd made here? Not to mention the extremely brave and devoted service so many Japanese Americans did in our military, despite the way we treated their relatives.
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Yes. Thank you...and as an aside...my grandmother remembered visiting her German cousins at the camp of their internment in Hoboken New Jersey during World War I. There was a large German community in the town back then and many of them worked on the docks of the harbor so were considered security risks. She remembers standing outside of the fence and talking to them. Her mother's family were all inside, her father was English and she had an English last name, so they did not have to live in there.
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I'd forgotten about that.
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Pat Buchanan was fired from MSNBC because his book has a chapter on the dangers of "white" American becoming a minority. I saw a video of him trying to rationalize his position on Hannity's show. I'm glad MSNBC fired him! The man has a lovable personna, is extremely smart and appears reasonable. He could make ethnic cleansing sound rational to people of simple minds....I won't even go into what he believes but he backs it up by making a case that Germany survived as a strong nation mainly because the are ethnically pure and were not balkanized like we will be with all our various ethnicities! Good God!
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Its all too easy for many to forget that Hitler wasnt the only person to use concentration camps to punish innocent people.
Thank you for reminding me of that and for hopefully educating those that felt concentration camps where something only Hitler used. They were around long before he was born and being used by many countries.Like (2)
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The British extensively used concentration camps for the Boers during the Boer War 1899-1902.
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I know but people like to be blind to many of the awful things that were done by the brits or americans
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OK,I'll stop (putting my pantalones up)
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They did the same here with both Iranians and Iraqis during the first Gulf War.
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Certainly, I know it could not have been easy for them considering the resentment for the way they treated American prisoners in the Philippines and Japan.
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Still can't understand it--my father and his brothers went to fight in Europe-despite our German heritage-shame on our government for not recognizing its own citizens. They lost so much and never recovered from it.
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There actually was some talk of putting German and Italian Americans into camps, but there were far too many of them and they were too interwoven into the everyday life of the US to make it practicable.
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Fear and racism - easy to look at someone and see Asian-harder to tell a German from another European. A really horrible mark on our country's history, I think.
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I wasn't aware of the figures.
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Posted by firstminister Feb 19th, 2012 at 10:53AM
Did Japan attack America
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Reply by ChipmunkErnie Feb 19th, 2012 at 11:05AM
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