things in this world that the thought of can make me ashamed to be American. These children saying the pledge of allegiance are about to go to a concentration camp somewhere on the west coast during WWII.
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I agree it's not our best chapter, but, thank God this is America, and here we did not execute "presumed enemy sympathizers".
This may sound apologistic, or rationalization. But I personally know a man from my church who was in one of the intern camps in WY or NE as a boy. He discussed his experience, rather openly, over breakfast with our Men's group earlier this year.
I would've expected much [justifiable] bitterness, but he harbored none. In fact, he later served in the military (1950's), attended college on the GI Bill and earned doctorates in chemistry and law.
Yes, it's ugly that our government deprived Japanese-Americans of liberty and property. We can't fully restore what was taken from these people, but in context, I think that in other combatant nations, such populations would likely have faced worse.
Hopefully we're wiser now.
I find your use of "concentration camp" a worse feeling than the American public version of "interim camp". It must have been horrendous for those people! Imagine trying to do that now to all, say, Iranians, Serbians,Pakistanians. etc?
Great post. It is even worse than you say. If everyone knew the truth about the pledge of allegiance then no one would perform it and it would cease to exist. Here is another photo of such people in one of the concentration camps.
http://rexcurry.net/pledgeofallegiance-japanese.jpg
It shows the early stiff-arm salute of the PoA, which was the origin of the salute adopted later by the National Socialist German Workers Party. The Pledge was written by a socialist in the nationalism movement (Francis Bellamy) and he was cousin and cohort to Edward Bellamy, a notorious socialist in the nationalism movement. They and their fellow-travelers influenced the National Socialist German Workers Party, its dogma, symbols and rituals. See the work of the symbologist Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Swastika Secrets").
Pat Morita was in one of FDR's SCOTUS concentration camps.
I liked ol' Pat.
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