<Why did we round up all the Japanese?> Paranoia and war hysteria.
findarticles.com
"It is now generally recognized that the removal of over 100,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast during World War II and their internment in so-called "relocation centers" was not motivated by legitimate security needs; rather, historians agree, the Roosevelt Administration's policy both developed from and fanned anti-Japanese racism in this country. The U.S. government itself has apologized for its wartime actions that, as one presidential commission retrospectively concluded, constituted "a grave injustice ... to American citizens and resident aliens of Japanese ancestry."(2)
lib.utah.edu
"on February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which resulted in the forcible internment of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry. More than two-thirds of those interned under the Executive Order were citizens of the United States, and none had ever shown any disloyalty."
geocities.com
June 21, 2000
Web posted at: 9:55 p.m. EDT (0155 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Clinton presented the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award, to 22 Asian-American World War II veterans, seven of whom are still living, saying it is "long past time" to "break the silence about their courage."
June 21, 2000
Web posted at: 10:23 p.m. EDT (0223 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- On the same day President Clinton awarded the Medal of Honor to almost two dozen Asian-American servicemen who fought in World War II, a Senate panel approved $4.2 million in funding to purchase, preserve and improve sites where Japanese-American were interned during the war.. . |
