Japanese INternment camps

"I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawaii now and putting them in concentration camps....Damn them! Let's get rid of them now!" <Tab/>-Congressman John Rankin, Congressional Record, February 19th, 1942. <Tab/>If you look through a junior high school history book you find many chapters on World War 2 and how America came in and "saved the day", or you see chapters on how the …

…had always taken for granted-- as most Americans still do-- began to take on deep meaning when we had been deprived of it. There were times when we began to lose faith in ourselves and our ability to take it. Life in the camps was not easy. It was inadequate and morale-killing. But never in those months did we lose faith in America." <Tab/>-An evacuee, quoted in Carey McWilliams, Prejudi