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After the report of a spy being in Hawaii the United States decided that they would not take any chances and had made a suggestion of eliminating all of the Japanese Americans in the United States. Their acts were very similar to those of Hitler’s, but without all of the murders. On February 19th, 1942, President Roosevelt issued the document known as Executive Order 9066. This document let the War Department classify anyplace in the country as a military area and bar people in those areas. The only problem is that the only people that were barred were the Japanese Americans and no other races. The evacuation included 112,000 Japanese Americans. The Japanese American families were told to pack as much as they can carry and were then told to sell the rest of their property for whatever they could get. After the families had packed and sold there personal properties the armed forces moved them from their homes to receiving stations, where they then boarded on buses or trains and were taken to fair grounds or race tracks where families might be housed in horse stalls. Then they were sent to one of the ten relocation camps on the western side of the United States. The camps were in remote areas that were unsuitable for farming, surrounded by fences, and guarded by the army. When they had arrived at the camps they went to wooden barracks that were divided into one-room apartments where an entire family lived. There was almost no furniture and only a bare bulb for light. The toilets, bathing facilities, and dining areas were shared by many of the families living in the 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 After the proceeding years that followed, President Roosevelt rescinded Executive Order 9066 in 1944 and the last camps were closed in March of 1946.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 ¾ 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 everything away from them and left them with nothing except for twenty thousand dollars and the wrongful accusations of the Japanese Americans. Bibliography: Book Sources Feldman, George. World War Two Almanac Volume 1. The Gale Group. San Francisco. 2000 Nextext. Japanese American Internment. Houghton Mifflin Company. Evanson, Illinois. 2000 Internet Sources Marriott, Willard. Japanese-Americans Internment Camps. http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo May 9th, 2001 Meyers, Robert. War Relocation Authority Camps. http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/images/jpamer/wraintro.html May 9th, 2001 No author. Confinement and Ethnicity. http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_boks/anthropology74/ce2a.htm May 9th, 2001 Word Count: 707
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