Japanese-Americans Fight to Preserve Wartime Internment Camps
As survivors of the camps age, their cause becomes more pressing
The internees, meanwhile, are waiting. Ernie Takahashi, for one, is still hopeful more can be done to protect what's left of the camps while they are still here. "Coming back here was a personal journey for me," he says. "It's a powerful place. You have to see it to believe it." Whether others will be able to make the same journey remains to be seen.
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I was in the US Navy in 1943/44 stationed at the Tranforan Race Track just after it was condemned as a Japanese relocation camp. I have a picture of the tar paper shacks the Navy took over after the Japanese left. We lived in those shacks for a couple months training for an invasion in the South Pacific. The only heat we had in the winter were two pot belled coal fired stoves, one at either end of the shack. Our mess hall was located in the grandstand.
Wartime Internment Camps
It is easy to point a finger at America's past mistakes. The truth is people were scared at the time. What happened was very unfair to the loyal Japanese living in America. By contrast the crimes Japan committed during World War II are on the same scale as Nazi Germany. Japan never owned up to their sins the way the Germans did. Japan even lies in their school text books. It wasn't America that started the war, it was Japan. Granted innocent people were punished for something they had no control over.
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