I will like to speak about the Japanese internment camps during World War II and how the
United States mistreated Japanese the Americans. The Japanese internment camps were soon created after the Japanese attacked
Pearl Harbor on the 7 of December of 1941. Around January 1942, the Japanese Americans heard that they can be to jail. Many people, who saw the Japanese American as competition in Japanese business and
America soon was called spies. Polices did not help, but they added to the hatred. President Franklin Roosevelt declared executive order 9066 in 19 February of 1942. The Japanese Americans now were prohibited of living close the western coast. The internment camps were created. About 250,000 Japanese Americans ordered to take only what they could carry and ride the buses to the internment camps. Thousand on Japanese Americans lived in the internment camps. They did not have a good one living atmosphere. The meals were no good and the cold sometimes come in the quarters when people were slept. An average of three hundreds people ate at the same time in cafeteria. Some of the internment camps were surrounded by dusts. The War Relocation Authority of the
United States informed the public that the internment camps did not have plumbing or cooking facilities of any type. President Franklin Roosevelt terminated the internment camps by the 1945 end. The
United
State’s government did not begin paying back the victims, until 1968. The Japanese Americans already lost their properties. I believe that the State United should have begun making apologies and granting money less to five years later. When the Congress of the
United States gave twenty thousand dollars to each surviving internee, only 60,000 were still alive. This it is very sad because more than half of the victims died reparations. Thousands of American of German, Italian, and another European reduction also lived in the internment camps with the Japanese, but as of 2004, the government of
United States of did not give reparations to the families affected. Some Japanese in the internment camps died of well-taken care of medical deficiency and emotional stress, while others were killed by the army guard by resisting you order. If the
United States is not careful in the future when deciding what to do in times of war, we could become the clone of a man, who Americans know as pure evil-another Adolf Hitler. We have reached level one out of three. How can we be land of free when our history demonstrates otherwise?



I chose this issue because America needs to realize that if we are not careful, we may be falling in a endless pit of no return. Now that the Iraq War is going on, will the United States' government do the same with U.S. citizens who appear suspicious, related to someone fighting on the opposing side, or anyone who came from countries in and around Iraq? We have destroyed millions of life to become the country we are today. Not quite like Hitler yet, but once the political aspect of our government takes on a different form, we could be and it really would be a shame. We have broken treaties with the Indians when expanding outwest and pushed them farther off their ancestral land.