Executive Order 9066: A Shameful Moment In WW2 America Silent Sacrifice Part 1 Timeline
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Date: 2022-07-19
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BruceFerguson999
As my Dad told me back in the 1960's you would have had to have lived through it to understand the intense psychological fear by the public at large. First Pearl Harbor which was aided beforehand by Japanese spies masquerading as civilians. This cost the entire Pacific fleet of battleships and left the west coast wide open to invasion by a hoard of vicious blood thirsty animals who not only killed prisoners including women, children and babies but ate their organs as well. Butchering cannibals worse than the Mongol hordes under Genghis Khan. What the Japanese should be thankful for is that President Truman stopped a plan to extinguish the Japanese population in their home islands by refusing their surrender and bombing them with nuclear weapons and napalm until they became extinct. They were thought of by many world-wide as not human but instead a deadly virus needing to be eradicated. So by-and-large the Japanese emerged from the second world war in really good shape with kind and caring victors who rebuilt them to immense prosperity instead of enslaving their population as they had planned for the populations they conquered.
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As my Dad told me back in the 1960's you would have had to have lived through it to understand the intense psychological fear by the public at large. First Pearl Harbor which was aided beforehand by Japanese spies masquerading as civilians. This cost the entire Pacific fleet of battleships and left the west coast wide open to invasion by a hoard of vicious blood thirsty animals who not only killed prisoners including women, children and babies but ate their organs as well. Butchering cannibals worse than the Mongol hordes under Genghis Khan. What the Japanese should be thankful for is that President Truman stopped a plan to extinguish the Japanese population in their home islands by refusing their surrender and bombing them with nuclear weapons and napalm until they became extinct. They were thought of by many world-wide as not human but instead a deadly virus needing to be eradicated. So by-and-large the Japanese emerged from the second world war in really good shape with kind and caring victors who rebuilt them to immense prosperity instead of enslaving their population as they had planned for the populations they conquered.
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JRod
I honestly don't know how to react to this. It might be callous to say this is the consequence of war - which either brings out the best or the worst in people. Japan did worse to the people of the Asia pacific. The deaths they left in their wake, the women they raped, in every country they invaded. Those were also innocent victims (like these people) of the war they started. Japan should have thought of these citizens of theirs before bombing pearl harbor. My grandfather was a war vet and the stories he told. all those lives lost. can't help but feel little sympathy for the people who caused so much death and lifetime pain for those who survived.
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I honestly don't know how to react to this. It might be callous to say this is the consequence of war - which either brings out the best or the worst in people. Japan did worse to the people of the Asia pacific. The deaths they left in their wake, the women they raped, in every country they invaded. Those were also innocent victims (like these people) of the war they started. Japan should have thought of these citizens of theirs before bombing pearl harbor. My grandfather was a war vet and the stories he told. all those lives lost. can't help but feel little sympathy for the people who caused so much death and lifetime pain for those who survived.
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Rae
EO 9066 didn't only affect Japanese Americans. several hundred German and Italian Americans were forced to move away from coastal areas as a result of individual exclusion orders. While FBI agents rounded up some Japanese-American men, they also launched a sweep of German-born men and about 11, 000 people of German ancestry, joined by a few thousand Italian nationals, who all eventually were interned. EO 9066 called for the compulsory relocation of more than 10, 000 Italian-Americans and restricted the movements of more than 600, 000 Italian-Americans nationwide.
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EO 9066 didn't only affect Japanese Americans. several hundred German and Italian Americans were forced to move away from coastal areas as a result of individual exclusion orders. While FBI agents rounded up some Japanese-American men, they also launched a sweep of German-born men and about 11, 000 people of German ancestry, joined by a few thousand Italian nationals, who all eventually were interned. EO 9066 called for the compulsory relocation of more than 10, 000 Italian-Americans and restricted the movements of more than 600, 000 Italian-Americans nationwide.
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Sebrina
My Grandparents had neighbors in Lodi, Ca who owned a Nursery when they were called to the camps. My grandpa bought it from them and kept their belongings. They were shipped back East somewhere. A few years later my grandfather sold their land back to them for $1. I did not find out until years later from grandma when she had a landscaper came once a year to check on grandmas house. Those landscaping guys were from that nursery and took care of my grandma yard until she past away in 2007. By the way, my family were German and they didnt have it easy either
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My Grandparents had neighbors in Lodi, Ca who owned a Nursery when they were called to the camps. My grandpa bought it from them and kept their belongings. They were shipped back East somewhere. A few years later my grandfather sold their land back to them for $1. I did not find out until years later from grandma when she had a landscaper came once a year to check on grandmas house. Those landscaping guys were from that nursery and took care of my grandma yard until she past away in 2007. By the way, my family were German and they didnt have it easy either
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Yann
Better safe than sorry. Easy to criticize 80 years after the facts, from a comfortable armchair. People then were rightfully afraid, suspicious, and angry. Sometimes, they even had lost dear ones to the Japanese. And when you see how civilians were treated by the Japanese in occupied China, Philippines, Vietnam etc. (just read about the massacre of Nanking) frankly the US has nothing to be ashamed of. The same goes for Dresden and Hiroshima.
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Better safe than sorry. Easy to criticize 80 years after the facts, from a comfortable armchair. People then were rightfully afraid, suspicious, and angry. Sometimes, they even had lost dear ones to the Japanese. And when you see how civilians were treated by the Japanese in occupied China, Philippines, Vietnam etc. (just read about the massacre of Nanking) frankly the US has nothing to be ashamed of. The same goes for Dresden and Hiroshima.
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polygamous1
This is a very tough call to get right between security n fairness, what am sure of is most Japanese Americans loyalty was with America but not all, as for the American born Japanese the overwhelming majority their loyalty belonged to the country they where born in, this is natural for most humans but how do u get things right in a war situation? so sad for all those people but this is the politicians to blame not the people
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This is a very tough call to get right between security n fairness, what am sure of is most Japanese Americans loyalty was with America but not all, as for the American born Japanese the overwhelming majority their loyalty belonged to the country they where born in, this is natural for most humans but how do u get things right in a war situation? so sad for all those people but this is the politicians to blame not the people
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chicken
They dont talk like us, their body posture and expression is not like ours, they look totally american to me. I wonder if they hate us for the tragedy.
BTW Its called thrive, and us Japanese dont have any th, r, or v sounds in the language. v is the easiest to assimilate, but most of us would never get the th and r sound right. Unless theyre exposed to the language early on. Like I was.
From Japan.
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They dont talk like us, their body posture and expression is not like ours, they look totally american to me. I wonder if they hate us for the tragedy.
BTW Its called thrive, and us Japanese dont have any th, r, or v sounds in the language. v is the easiest to assimilate, but most of us would never get the th and r sound right. Unless theyre exposed to the language early on. Like I was.
From Japan.
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Jeffrey
Can you help me understand if the Niihau incident might or might not have contributed to this injustice. There are a few videos on the story on YT. I am from Kauai, Hawaii and knew about it as a child living in Kaumakani. I saw the video of it recently and was curious if it contributed to the incarceration of of the Japanese Americans. One video recounts a medal being awarded.
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Can you help me understand if the Niihau incident might or might not have contributed to this injustice. There are a few videos on the story on YT. I am from Kauai, Hawaii and knew about it as a child living in Kaumakani. I saw the video of it recently and was curious if it contributed to the incarceration of of the Japanese Americans. One video recounts a medal being awarded.
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Kid
Yeah sorry but I don't care, the mortality rate in those camps was only a tenth of what it was in Japanese POW camps so once they stop conducting themselves in a savage and monstrous manner maybe I'll feel sorry for them. oH bUt ThEy WeRe JuSt CiViLlIaNs! 11, with how the Japanese conducted war you can never be sure that anyone is a non combatant. They did this to themselves.
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Yeah sorry but I don't care, the mortality rate in those camps was only a tenth of what it was in Japanese POW camps so once they stop conducting themselves in a savage and monstrous manner maybe I'll feel sorry for them. oH bUt ThEy WeRe JuSt CiViLlIaNs! 11, with how the Japanese conducted war you can never be sure that anyone is a non combatant. They did this to themselves.
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Matt
this is happening right now. we are firing people who are not vaccinated even though the vaccine for most people has worn off months ago. so we are firing people for their personal decisions based on inferred political leanings. While not incarcerating them, we are denying their right to work, in some places freedom of movement, to shop, etc. Almost as bad
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this is happening right now. we are firing people who are not vaccinated even though the vaccine for most people has worn off months ago. so we are firing people for their personal decisions based on inferred political leanings. While not incarcerating them, we are denying their right to work, in some places freedom of movement, to shop, etc. Almost as bad
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SiVlog
This is another example of the shameful and dark history of racial discrimination in the United States. These people weren't being moved out of the Western States because of the war against Japan, it was an assumption based on nothing more than their ethnicity that they were sympathetic to Japan and its war efforts.
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This is another example of the shameful and dark history of racial discrimination in the United States. These people weren't being moved out of the Western States because of the war against Japan, it was an assumption based on nothing more than their ethnicity that they were sympathetic to Japan and its war efforts.
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Robert
Since I first learned of these so called internment camps many years ago, it's stuck with me! I lived in Japan for a little over a year, and I absolutely love her people and country! I find it appalling, that the US decided to become like the Nazis, and imprison innocent America loving people!
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Since I first learned of these so called internment camps many years ago, it's stuck with me! I lived in Japan for a little over a year, and I absolutely love her people and country! I find it appalling, that the US decided to become like the Nazis, and imprison innocent America loving people!
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trunkpk
Let's be honest though before this ever happened in America. I'm sure some of the American Japanese at the time were quite proud of what Japan was doing in Asia though. That said, let's hope there will never be another war. At the end of the day, we are all the same kind. We are human.
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Let's be honest though before this ever happened in America. I'm sure some of the American Japanese at the time were quite proud of what Japan was doing in Asia though. That said, let's hope there will never be another war. At the end of the day, we are all the same kind. We are human.
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Truong
On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor(in 1887 the US took control of Hawaii from their King Kalakaua)
On July 8, 1853, Admiral Matthew Perry told the Emperor of Japan he would return in 1 year with a whole armada of ships, to destroy Japan if Japan did not open trade.
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On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor(in 1887 the US took control of Hawaii from their King Kalakaua)
On July 8, 1853, Admiral Matthew Perry told the Emperor of Japan he would return in 1 year with a whole armada of ships, to destroy Japan if Japan did not open trade.
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kosjeyr
As one that knew of this as there were camps in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico at least to keep overall all POWs and such, there was a lot of speculation of who was a spy and out of all the countries at war during WWII, the Japanese were the most brutal towards any POWs.
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As one that knew of this as there were camps in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico at least to keep overall all POWs and such, there was a lot of speculation of who was a spy and out of all the countries at war during WWII, the Japanese were the most brutal towards any POWs.
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Crazy
Terrible title misleading a historical fact. we were at war with Japan. And we just so happened to have 2nd and 3rd generation Japanese citizens living in the united States. how were they supposed to know where there values and loyalty stood with. i stand by the decision.
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Terrible title misleading a historical fact. we were at war with Japan. And we just so happened to have 2nd and 3rd generation Japanese citizens living in the united States. how were they supposed to know where there values and loyalty stood with. i stand by the decision.
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mogwai
The U. S. authorities relied on fairly questionable intelligence re the American Japanese community. This was evident in the lead up to Pearl Harbour too. It looks like the Intel was made to fit.
Did the imprisoned people get their shops, businesses, farms back?
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The U. S. authorities relied on fairly questionable intelligence re the American Japanese community. This was evident in the lead up to Pearl Harbour too. It looks like the Intel was made to fit.
Did the imprisoned people get their shops, businesses, farms back?
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Edwin
Did they change your name German sounding names in the UK? Did the first Sea Lord lose his position?
Has anyone ever heard of the Berlin Turnpike in Newark, New Jersey?
Has anyone ever heard of German Valley, New Jersey?
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Did they change your name German sounding names in the UK? Did the first Sea Lord lose his position?
Has anyone ever heard of the Berlin Turnpike in Newark, New Jersey?
Has anyone ever heard of German Valley, New Jersey?
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Maureen
Trust the usa to round up and place Japanese Americans in interment camps, considering the US was very racist at the time, notice they never did this to German Americans because they were white.
Writing from Britain.
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Trust the usa to round up and place Japanese Americans in interment camps, considering the US was very racist at the time, notice they never did this to German Americans because they were white.
Writing from Britain.
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