I grew up near one of these camps in Wyoming. It was just known as the Jap Camp. I used to drive out and look around as I had absolutely no idea the history. Was never talked about, of course in no history books. Wasn’t until I was an adult that a book was written about it. Now I understand there’s an educational building or something there which I’d like to see. It happened, it’s part of our country’s story and shouldn’t be swept under the rug. But to me, this was a government decision and we should know what they did to our citizens out of “fear.” Mostly because these fear driven atrocities continue on our citizens today and everyday by a government that’s anything but benevolent.
It did make the "news", but as far as I know it was only local to the San Jose/Silicon Valley area. It seems obvious to me that TPTB never want to admit fault or apologize for any wrongs they've done in the name of the "greater good". As far as I'm concerned these prisoners of conscirence did the right thing. If as an American citizen you've been treated as a subhuman, needing to be locked away, why would you suddenly need to "prove" yourself.
I grew up with the Interment camp notice on my brother's bathroom door. Our parents never wanted us to forget. However our government has hid the American internment camps. Where was it in my history books in school? Why did other students and some teachers tell me that I made it up? Tanforan Park was an internment camp in South San Francisco, Calfornia. Horse stalls served as family homes. It did not seem it was an important historical site. It was replaced by a shoppingmall. As the last few Nissei die off, who served to protect their country, the government makes the largest interment camp a national park. Federal lands. Controlled by those who are now changing the country to a totalitarian \ Marxist state. Exactly why Japanese immigrated to the US. They as most people wanted to be free. Just a few generations later, their efforts have diminished. Americans have taken freedom to chose for granted. We have failed those who worked hard to create a better world by being poor stewards.
It's important to remind citizens that freedom can be taken away by government. I used to think that something like that couldn't happen in modern day, but after 9/11, some people were wanting to lock up Middle Eastern Americans. Look what happened to California under Newsom during the pandemic; hysteria being used to make citizens isolate and not participate in normal life. Then as in now, it's all about propaganda being used to inflame citizens to accept rights and land to be taken away in the quest for more power for a few. I can see how this action can have two meanings: people can think oh, the government is trying to say we must learn from the unjust mistakes of the pasts and preserve our freedoms while at the same time, be a reminder that the government can do whatever the elites want it to do.
I have very mixed feelings about this. Yes, it should be known, but so should ALL our history, good bad, or indifferent! Knocking down or "burying" parts some don't like makes this a bit offensive, actually. Not because it wasn't "wrong", but neither were the parts ripped away!
Few people realize that the former USA suffered an Electoral Coup with the Presidential sElection of 2007 and America is in the process of dismantling.
Are the D.C. and State House Representatives So compromised and/or corrupt that they are unable to confront it or even acknowledge it?
Did Political Correctness = Lay Down
And Tolerance = Surrender
Contribute to it?
Was a compromised and cognitively diminished President required to provide Obama’s unconstitutional third term in order to finalize the Coup ?
I hope that it does. I have been to Dachau & Auschwitz several times, & I & others are always reminded of the horrors of the actions of people who cooperated with evil. It was always an unsettling & somber visit, but a necessary part of our education of what man is capable of doing to others. Let's hope that it propels people to never let this happen again. People need to see & hear & touch the reality of this evil sometimes for it to sink in.
Good question. I think 20 years ago the effect of this park would have been there to demoralize Americans and make us feel like we are really bad people. While we do need humility, even 20 years ago I think this would have gone over about as well as a national proclamation that we should eat more broccoli. Sure we should. But who's going to? At this point, I think Americans are more focused on practical matters and don't have time to worry about whether we need more humility.
They can make a national park, but they can't (yet) make you go there.
Peggy - Adding insult to injury... Not sure if you are aware of the equally troubling story within this story. Apparently in 1944, because of a shortage of soldiers the government decided to draft fighting age men from the internment camps. Some eagerly went, attempting to prove their loyalty to America, but there also was a contingent who refused. Why should they fight for a country that deems them un-American? A number of these men were sentenced to prison terms in Leavenworth. These men had been ranchers/farmers and nurserymen in the Santa Clara Valley. I recall my dad telling me stories about this as a couple of these guys were his fishing buddies. It truly was yet another sad chapter in American history.
WHOA! HOLD IT! Those nesei were NOT DRAFTED, they had been clamoring to join the fight since Pearl. They became THE MOST decorated unit in the US Army! The 442nd were a fierce fighting unit, just as angry as their fellows, and determined to show they were as American as all the rest. They are American heroes, every bit as much as the Tuskegee airmen. Recruiters didn't have to draft them, just get out of their way! A large group had been in the Hawaiian National Guard before being rounded up.
I bet they won't make West Bank and Gaza a national Park, an open concentration camp, sustained with US weapons and the agressor occupier next door to it. What about targeting Americans with dews, chemicals and other human experimentations? Never again?
Also, a National Historic Site, under the National Park Service, in Hunt, Idaho, Jerome County, near the Snake River Plain, just 20 miles northeast of Twin Falls, Idaho, is the Minidoka concentration camp. It once imprisoned over 13,000 Japanese Americans in the Idaho desert, between 1942-1945, as well.
Getting rid of founding father statues, and symbols of freedom, contemplating rewriting of the national anthem, replacing it, which Obama said he would do as Presidential candidate. He also said he would change the flag ( on Press TV). But maintaining reminders of injustice and grief, is another way they trash america
I grew up near one of these camps in Wyoming. It was just known as the Jap Camp. I used to drive out and look around as I had absolutely no idea the history. Was never talked about, of course in no history books. Wasn’t until I was an adult that a book was written about it. Now I understand there’s an educational building or something there which I’d like to see. It happened, it’s part of our country’s story and shouldn’t be swept under the rug. But to me, this was a government decision and we should know what they did to our citizens out of “fear.” Mostly because these fear driven atrocities continue on our citizens today and everyday by a government that’s anything but benevolent.
We must preserve history, the good, bad and the ugly; as not to repeat!
Thank you Peggy Hall.
Sarah,
Placer County, Calif.
It did make the "news", but as far as I know it was only local to the San Jose/Silicon Valley area. It seems obvious to me that TPTB never want to admit fault or apologize for any wrongs they've done in the name of the "greater good". As far as I'm concerned these prisoners of conscirence did the right thing. If as an American citizen you've been treated as a subhuman, needing to be locked away, why would you suddenly need to "prove" yourself.
I grew up with the Interment camp notice on my brother's bathroom door. Our parents never wanted us to forget. However our government has hid the American internment camps. Where was it in my history books in school? Why did other students and some teachers tell me that I made it up? Tanforan Park was an internment camp in South San Francisco, Calfornia. Horse stalls served as family homes. It did not seem it was an important historical site. It was replaced by a shoppingmall. As the last few Nissei die off, who served to protect their country, the government makes the largest interment camp a national park. Federal lands. Controlled by those who are now changing the country to a totalitarian \ Marxist state. Exactly why Japanese immigrated to the US. They as most people wanted to be free. Just a few generations later, their efforts have diminished. Americans have taken freedom to chose for granted. We have failed those who worked hard to create a better world by being poor stewards.
Fuck GHQ and MacArthur ……..to hellllllllllllllll
Nuke Netanyahu now
It's important to remind citizens that freedom can be taken away by government. I used to think that something like that couldn't happen in modern day, but after 9/11, some people were wanting to lock up Middle Eastern Americans. Look what happened to California under Newsom during the pandemic; hysteria being used to make citizens isolate and not participate in normal life. Then as in now, it's all about propaganda being used to inflame citizens to accept rights and land to be taken away in the quest for more power for a few. I can see how this action can have two meanings: people can think oh, the government is trying to say we must learn from the unjust mistakes of the pasts and preserve our freedoms while at the same time, be a reminder that the government can do whatever the elites want it to do.
I have very mixed feelings about this. Yes, it should be known, but so should ALL our history, good bad, or indifferent! Knocking down or "burying" parts some don't like makes this a bit offensive, actually. Not because it wasn't "wrong", but neither were the parts ripped away!
All the wars and crimes against living men and women, humanity
and slaves since the Mercenary Civil War were done by our subcontractors, not the Americans.
The Americans did not give our employees any authority to start “Mercenary Wars”.
Since the civil war the American State Nationals and State Citizens are blamed for all the evil and everything else our employees did.
The United States of America, unincorporated has not been at war since the war of 1812-1814 in which we were fighting off the British again.
So please stop blaming us. Call out the criminals of DC that actually planned and started all the “wars” since 1861.
Our subcontractor employees are foreign British (TORIES & Papal citizens.
Few people realize that the former USA suffered an Electoral Coup with the Presidential sElection of 2007 and America is in the process of dismantling.
Are the D.C. and State House Representatives So compromised and/or corrupt that they are unable to confront it or even acknowledge it?
Did Political Correctness = Lay Down
And Tolerance = Surrender
Contribute to it?
Was a compromised and cognitively diminished President required to provide Obama’s unconstitutional third term in order to finalize the Coup ?
Is this what prompted the Trump Hatred in 2016 ?
That was the '08 campaign and the 2nd coup d'état in my lifetime! The 1st was in November of '63!
I hope that it does. I have been to Dachau & Auschwitz several times, & I & others are always reminded of the horrors of the actions of people who cooperated with evil. It was always an unsettling & somber visit, but a necessary part of our education of what man is capable of doing to others. Let's hope that it propels people to never let this happen again. People need to see & hear & touch the reality of this evil sometimes for it to sink in.
Good question. I think 20 years ago the effect of this park would have been there to demoralize Americans and make us feel like we are really bad people. While we do need humility, even 20 years ago I think this would have gone over about as well as a national proclamation that we should eat more broccoli. Sure we should. But who's going to? At this point, I think Americans are more focused on practical matters and don't have time to worry about whether we need more humility.
They can make a national park, but they can't (yet) make you go there.
Peggy - Adding insult to injury... Not sure if you are aware of the equally troubling story within this story. Apparently in 1944, because of a shortage of soldiers the government decided to draft fighting age men from the internment camps. Some eagerly went, attempting to prove their loyalty to America, but there also was a contingent who refused. Why should they fight for a country that deems them un-American? A number of these men were sentenced to prison terms in Leavenworth. These men had been ranchers/farmers and nurserymen in the Santa Clara Valley. I recall my dad telling me stories about this as a couple of these guys were his fishing buddies. It truly was yet another sad chapter in American history.
True
WHOA! HOLD IT! Those nesei were NOT DRAFTED, they had been clamoring to join the fight since Pearl. They became THE MOST decorated unit in the US Army! The 442nd were a fierce fighting unit, just as angry as their fellows, and determined to show they were as American as all the rest. They are American heroes, every bit as much as the Tuskegee airmen. Recruiters didn't have to draft them, just get out of their way! A large group had been in the Hawaiian National Guard before being rounded up.
I'm not making this up. There was a group that refused and were incarcerated in Leavenworth.
Odd that it never made the news or rumor mill, the latter very active in the military and often more accurate than the news.
I bet they won't make West Bank and Gaza a national Park, an open concentration camp, sustained with US weapons and the agressor occupier next door to it. What about targeting Americans with dews, chemicals and other human experimentations? Never again?
Also, a National Historic Site, under the National Park Service, in Hunt, Idaho, Jerome County, near the Snake River Plain, just 20 miles northeast of Twin Falls, Idaho, is the Minidoka concentration camp. It once imprisoned over 13,000 Japanese Americans in the Idaho desert, between 1942-1945, as well.
Getting rid of founding father statues, and symbols of freedom, contemplating rewriting of the national anthem, replacing it, which Obama said he would do as Presidential candidate. He also said he would change the flag ( on Press TV). But maintaining reminders of injustice and grief, is another way they trash america