| The bad part of the internments is that some unscrupulous Americans took advantage of the Japanese-Americans by cheating and outright stealing their land and businesses. The good part was that the internees were treated humanely and although humiliated, no one was starved to death and families lived together. Some also forget that, after the war, Japan was built into a major world economic empire and the Japanese-American communities were extremely resilient and recovered most of their property through the legal system. While tragic, I'm not judging a wartime Government existing before I was born for their security policies. My family has a very hard to miss German Surname and more than once told some people that we were Dutch.
__________________  “War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.” —John Stuart Mill |