WWII Japanese detention still holds lessons for us

[struggle4progress]

<snip> Some defended the internments by saying they were put into camps for protection. ``But the guards did not point the guns out; they pointed the guns to us,'' Kobayashi recalled.

Some people were shot for standing too close to the fences. ``The guards who shot them were charged with nothing but the value of the bullets used to kill the people - 10 cents, I think, 10 cents for a bullet.'' <snip>

The most ironic thing about the internment is that there were never proven reports of espionage or sabotage among mainland Japanese-Americans. <snip>

That was a different time. Or was it?

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/02/07/tw.remembrance.0207.html

The author of this nice piece appears to be a high school student ...

[murielm99]

1. Very professionally written!

Thank you for posting.

[JAbuchan08]

2. Huh, wonder why they never mentioned the guards shooting people

in the "liberal" education system?

[Lisa]

3. and for those who were US citizens ...

... having to fill out that loyalty questionnaire was humiliating and terrifying.

Good article!

[vpigrad]

4. We did plenty of horrific things to Japan last century...

but you'll never hear about them in our repuke-run education system.