ast.” It also addresses the fact that no “mass exclusion or detention, in any part of thecountry, was ordered against American citizens of German or Italian decent,” and furtherrefers to the internment as a “personal injustice of excluding, removing, and detainingloyal American citizens.” Finally, it refers to General DeWitt’s reasoning behind theinternment as “unfounded justifications.” The government has, indeed, admitted their wrongdoings and injustices, and hasoffered methods of repair and forgiveness, but the scars left upon those who were on theinside of these camps cannot be repaired with a simple apology and the offering offinancial reimbursement. Imagine how damaging the inside, first-person view of thedreaded internment camps were.Min Okubo, author of Citizen 13660, gives her first-person account of the waythe Japanese-Americans in the “communities” were treated, how they felt, and how theylived. In her book, she says that “it was a real blow when everyone, regardless ofcitizenship, was ordered to evacuate.” Imagine the audacity: no matter how long you hadbeen in the United States, whether from birth or soon after, you could look at your skincolor and know that you, too, had to go to this mysterious “relocation,” this “evacuation.” You would lose everything you had lived for - your home, business, cars,memories...everything that belonged to you, besides a few unimportant accessories(bedding, clothes, etc.). Imagine losing even your identity, and having it replaced by anumber, having to tag “the baggage with the family number,” and pin “the personal tags”on yourself. You would be filed onto a bus with hundreds of other Japanese descendants,escorted by military police, and driven to a possibly familiar sounding place, such as aracetrack or fairground, yet not knowing what to expect once you had arrive...
