e same barracks together. Half of the Nisei that were in the camps were under eighteen years of age and the government had not planned for schools. There were hardly any Recreation facilities and there was no work anywhere in the camps. Most people considered the camps to be referred to as medium-security prisons. Then in 1943, between fifteen thousand and twenty thousand Japanese American students were released from the camps. After the proceeding years that followed, President Roosevelt rescinded Executive Order 9066 in 1944 and the last camps were closed in March of 1946. When the Japanese Americans were released from the camps the Nisei were then eligible to join the armed services in 1943. About of the young men that were imprisoned did join the forces to prove to the United States that they were loyal and could serve on the United States side, although many did not want to admit that they had fought for the United States. In the years that had passed many Japanese Americans had landed back on their feet and had begun work again and were moving on. Then in 1959, American citizenship was restored to Nisei who had renounced it. Then in 1989, a federal law was passed that provided twenty thousand dollars to every Japanese American that had been a prisoner in the Internment camps. In 1993, a federal court had ruled that interning the Japanese Americans had violated their constitutional rights. To this day there are still questions about if what we did was right. We personally do not believe the United States was right for doing what they did because all of the Japanese Americans were American citizens and had only been living life like any other person. If we wanted to punish someone, we should have punished Japan in general and not people who are citizens and live in the same country we do. That was wrong and we think that the United States can never do enough to make up for the mistake they made because they took ever...
