Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Japanese internment in the U.S

As i was reading an artical on Japanese internment, i came upon many interesting and disturbing facts. After America was attacked in Pearl Harbor, presidant Roosevelt decided to take action and put 120,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps. Even though two thirds of them were American citizens, Roozevelt could not trust that none of them are spys for the Japanese.
Another very distubing fact is that of the 120,000 people put in camps, over half were children. Being torn from your homes and lives, these people were treated very terribly and did not deserve what they got. At the end of the war, only ten people were guilty of spying for the Japanese. All ten of these being caucasian. These are just a few facts that i found interesting but also sad. America has been through more rough times then one can ever imagine, things like these are just a painful reminder.

This is the site in which i read the artical from:
http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/japan_internment_camps.htm