The Japanese Internment and the Animosity that Lead up to it How would you feel if you were forced to abandon your home or business for no reason other than your ethnicity? That is exactly what the American government did to the Japanese living in the United States during World War II. The Japanese-Americans, the majority of them American citizens, were forced to leave their homes and many of their belongings in order to be …
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…concentration camps. The money that they were given almost fifty years after their appalling experience can not replace the years of their life that they lost in the camps. "...May it serve as a constant reminder of our past so that Americans in the future will never again be denied their Constitutional rights and may the remembrance of that experience serve to advance the evolution of the human spirit" (www.pbs.org/childrenofcamp/histroy.html).