My posts are clear, and have made a few simple points more than once. If you are having trouble "keeping up with" those posts, it is because you decline to consider those points.
That is evidenced by your odd and complete change of subject. You have, astonishingly, by clear implication associated the internment of Japanese-Americans with such acts as "chopping the heads off our soldiers for the fun of it."
If these war crimes you mention, such as "chopping the heads off our soldiers for the fun if it," were committed by the Japanese-Americans whom we interned I am amazed to hear it, and think no punishment too great for the perpetrators.
However the Japanese-Americans (not the German-Americans!) (And not those in Hawaii where there were 3800% more J-A's than in CA, and where an invasion would be more likely!) whom we treated so disgustingly on the pretense that it was "a military necessity" were neither charged with crimes, nor with disloyalty -- they were charged only with having Japanese blood in their veins. A drop of it in an American toddler in an orphanage or in a sick old American man was enough to condemn the child or the aged invalid to the camp, and often to malnutrition, and if they had assets, to virtual certainty that those would be stolen. Many of the men were effectually 'disappeared' by our government, their whereabouts or condition unknown to their families for years.
Regarding soldiers, the Japanese-American unit of soldiers became the most decorated unit of its size in the war. 18,143 decorations were awarded to members of the 442d.
And a ten year study that ended in 1941 revealed Japanese-American citizens to be "exceptionally trustworthy, and to pose no danger to the country."
And the Attorney General and the Director of the FBI felt the internments were uncalled for, and motivated by local political pressure.
If you have reason to believe that Japanese-Americans were not loyal, produce it, please. If you have reason to disbelieve that they were the bravest of soldiers, produce it, please. If you have reason to believe babies and the aged were a threat to our nation, produce it, please. If you have reason to believe the "military threat" ethnic Japanese represented was somehow less in Hawaii, where there were economic reasons to resist the hysteria, produce it, please.
If you know something Hoover and Biddle didn't, share it , please.
If you know why my first-generation German grandparents, with their very German name, never had a problem, share it. Although my grandparents weren't among them, there were German-American Nazi sympathizers in this country, the German-American Bund, and unless they broke the law, they were not interned for the blood in their veins.
My "serious" answer to your question about the draft during WWII is that it was necessary.
But not because of the exceptionally loyal and law-abiding Japanese-Americans, whose soldiers were the loyalest of the loyal and the bravest of the brave and who did not, incidentally, dance in the street in celebration of Pearl Harbor.
Your posting, in the context of this discussion, references to "captors who often chopped their heads off for the fun of it" is worthy of the hate-mongering newspapers of the time that attempted, successfully in your case, to make an irrational, visceral association between loyal Americans and our foreign enemy. |
