Manzanar! Japanese-American Internment Camp during World War II
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- Jeff and Sarah stop by Manzanar in Eastern California to tell the story and show the place where 10,000 Japanese-American citizens were forced to live during World War II. This episode pays homage to the many who were detained there against their will because of an American president who took stripped them of their freedoms.
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Two of my friends were born here. We went through Kindergarten thru 12th grade and remain friends to this day! Good good people.
My grandfather was in one of the internment camps in Arizona. He was a merchant marine in the second world war. He never talked about it. My mother told me a few years after his passing. He was a good man and always had a smile on his face. One would think that after being in a place like that, no matter how life treats you and where you have been there is ALWAYS something to be grateful for. I miss him dearly...
Being raised in an area of central California with a very large Japanese-American population, it might interest you that ALL of the MANY Japanese classmates in my Grammar and High Schools were all born in the Amache Internment Camp in Grenada, Colorado. GREAT video, done with a whole lot of compassion. Thanks
Roy G. Dodd you’re always supportive! Thank you!
A very somber time in American history. I live relatively close to the Japanese-American internment camp in Tule Lake Ca. It's crazy to think that we could do that to US citizens. Great video Jeff!
? Exactly I went there this past Sunday Father's Day it was very sad
Of the 100's of TH-cam videos I've watched, this video may be the one I appreciate most. I appreciated the sincerity and respect you gave to this video. My dad was in Manzanar when he was a teen so your video helped me I understand some of my dad's stories. I visited Manzanar in 2006, shortly after my father's passing and the only thing that was there was the Visitor's Center and the newly erected guard tower. After seeing your video, I think I'll make another trip to see the new reconstructions. Thank you for posting.
In my opinion this is the worst thing done to American citizens.. very sad 😢
@@franklimper2677 this TH-cam is. A little rwcist
@@maxitan2798 I wouldn’t say the the creator of this channel is .. what was done to these people was
@@maxitan2798 Seriously?
“Dont make decisions based on fear”.... Or maybe “ dont make decisions based on emotions”.... Great video on a little known bit of history in America
I did a little road trip back in 2018 going to Yosemite national park and took the back way and stopping by Manzanar on my way back home to Southern California. While I was at the visiting center I came across a young man maybe around 6-7 years old, crying for the Japanese Americans... He said why are we so cruel and hateful to them. His parents wasn't near by to answer or if they have the answer for him. I could have kept on walking by him. I could gave him the adult full version of it... but it could only lead to more confusion so I made it simple, sweet, and the visiting center is about to close. As a passing by mentor, I stop and answer his question I got down to him and told. People are unkind and cruel to things that they don't know and understand. Their hate blind them from thinking rationally. I also told him that my ancestors first immigrated during the building of the transcontinental railroad and also faced a similar hatred to the Chinese.
Great episode. And thankyou. My dad and his family were imprisoned ay Tule Lake. That would be my uncles and aunts. And my uncle you've probably heard of. Pat Morita. Mr. Miyagi of The Karate Kid movies. It was a prison camp. And they were treated as such. And don't care what people tell you. They lived in harsh conditions. The winters were brutal. The summers were hot. My family lost there farm, and things were taken from them by the government. My dad was held in a separate area of the camp. It was where the held the troublemakers. He defied the orders and tried to escape. The quarters were poor. Freezing cold in the winter and extremely hot in the summer. Even with a heater it was still cold. My practiced martial arts. the art of Kendo. The art of swordsmanship. The way the samurai trained. They were ordered to stop or be shot. The guards were afraid of what they would do. The equipment was confiscated and burned. It would have been worth a lot of money today. When they ran out toilet paper, They didn't give them anymore, so they resorted to using comic books and magazines. Whatever was handy. We actually did get the renumeration of $30,000. My dad just kinda laughed and said that's it, for all the suffering and mistreatment that we through. The order was illegal, unlawful, and unconstitutional.
I don't know what schools teach today. Not much I gather. I certainly learned about internment camps in school and a heck of a lot more than kids nowadays. Shame on our school system.
When the Japanese filed suit against the US they invited the Alaska natives who were removed from locations where the army moved in and vandalized the villages they were occupying. So they joined the suit and received reperation with the American Japanese. I live in Fairbanks Ak and our museum has a whole display about it.
I never learned about this in school either. Great information Jeff and Sarah.
One of the great ironies of Japanese American history during this time was while they were considered enemies or potential enemies of the country, the all Japanese-American 442nd infantry regiment was the fiercest and literally the most decorated American regiment in US military history. They were referred to as “the problem solvers” and were used to break thru and push back the Germans where others couldn’t, earning tremendous respect from within the military while pulling off some legendary combat feats. Unfortunately, no one else in America knows about them.
Yes. They saved the Texas Lost Battalion. The Japanese American unit suffered over 800 casualties to save around 200.
They were known as the Purple Heart Battalion.
Young Oak Kim a Korean American was actually in the 442. He also fought in Vietnam and was highly decorated in both wars. Was a leader.
I haven't been to manzanar since 2010. This reconstructed barracks weren't there then. I highly recommend reading "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston.
As a California National Guardsmen from 1984 to 1994 , I slept and ate in original built type barracks with the same type toilets and showers and mess hall at Camp Roberts California, that was built during WW2. Yes some time thank a VET that served.
Nearing the end of the internment, Japanese men would disappear into the mountains to go fishing. One man disappeared when he was separated from the others in a storm. When he was finally found deceased, he was buried with rocks. He was found last year near the lakes behind Mt. Williamson.
My wife uncles Motherlaw was interred in a camp in Ca. (I cant remember which one) but she talked about how dire it was! More so because they were pulled out of their houses with the clothes they had on, and whatever they could carry!!...I can only imagine in todays reality of fear! How I too could be dragged out of my own home....
This was common knowledge when I was growing up in the 60's. It's very sad, and it was a much different time back then. Our neighbors across the street when I was growing were in Japanese Internment Camp, that's were they met, and later married. My mother told us about these camps. I even had a 4th or 5th grade teacher write on my report card how impressed she was regarding my knowledge of the camps. We were taught about this in school. Later years I found out that Italians were put into Internment Camps, as well, but this is never spoken of...
Germans as well, though not nearly as many. Ironically, more of them went back to Germany and fought in the Wehrmacht.
In my history class we had two Japanese who where in one of those camps, keep talk to us and show us their number tag.
I just went there this past Father's Day
Yes a very sad time in America. This was hard to watch however it must be seen so we won't forget. Whenever decisions are made on emotion and not logic it doesn't end well. Thanks for sharing your visit.
EVERY kid in school should watch this video. You've done it again Jeff... amazing job really getting to the nitty gritty of some not-so-fun history that absolutely should NOT be forgotten. Thank you for this one, a visit to Manzanar is still on my bucket list.
Thank you Sarah and Jeff for educating us 🇺🇸 in this very painful page of our history 🙏
Hi Jeff yes a injustice for sure but the times right after the sneak attack who knows the feeling ! Great vlog you are a master !!
Very interesting how they have it reconstructed and how they tell the stories in and around it. I can't imagine being taken away from your established life to this camp. Such a sad and tragic time but they knew spies were involved in Pearl. Great job covering this!
RhettyforFun thank you for watching and your comments! I appreciate your feedback as I have appreciated your videos as well!!!
Thank you for sharing.
I worked at a Hospital in Turlock I met alot of people. That was subjected to the camps during WWII one person even would hold lectures regarding the life of them. Very sad that it had been experienced by the Japanese people in the United States.
Once again Thank you Jeff and Sarah
Linda Lucas you’re welcome! Yes Turlock was a receiving center!
great video Jeff,I Did not know much about the Manzanar camp.very informative.it was very sad story.thanks again for your time to film this sad place.
Thanks for watching! I appreciate loyal viewers such as you! Yes, Manzanar was a big mistake with the Japanese American unfairly being hurt in the process.
Thank you for this video. I learned about the internment camps of Japanese Americans on my own as I am a lover of history. May we never forget so we can learn from this past atrocities. Alan Brennert wrote a great novel Daughter of Moloka'i depicting the life of Japanese Americans living during this time.
History Hunters, yup, another great video, never new most of this, great coverage!!!
If you learn from our videos, half our mission is accomplished! The other intent is to entertain. This one is more serious!
WOW !! so informative !! THANK YOU JEFF & SARAH
Thank you. It certainly was a dark chapter in American history and we feel that’s why it’s important to learn history so that we don’t repeat the mistakes of the past. I do thank you very much for watching and commenting.
good video....did not know about this ..very sad story....thank you for showing it
Awesome reflection of respect.
Thank you.
Respectfully Raymond Chavira Hirota Alvarez.
The barracks I lived in at Ft Polk and later Ft Sill were very similar to those slap dash internment camp structures. Equally cozy barn-like shacks that likely took no more than a day or two to construct.
Enjoyed this video, history that will stay with in our hearts and learn “ love thy neighbor “
Glad you enjoyed it, Jean! May we learn from the mistakes of our past!
I always get a sadness whenever I visit but it’s good to be reminded of what can happen when irrational fear is allowed to fester
I"ve been to Tule Lake and to Poston and plan on stopping at Mazanar next Tuesda...I'm really Happy Jeff and Sarah made this episode. Sarah, the other two camps I've been to wasn't kept up, and Tule, they didn't have an outside display except a Guard tower and one barrack...Love you two
Have fun checking it out. It might be cold this time of year but you could get an idea of what the poor internees went through. The climate there can be really severe in winter and summer. Thanks for watching and for the love, Bryan!
@@jbenziggy is was a great. The weather was over 60. Then I went to Lone Pine and stayed next door to the museum of western film history.
Nice work✌🇺🇸
Amazed that Ansel Adams took pictures there.......but I shouldn't be, because he did so much photography in that part of the country
Many thanks to you ! This was my history! I was 2 years old... Imagine if you were Japanese American, Sara would haven been standing other side of barbed wire fence because she was white ? My father born in1888 and came to America early 1900' as railroad worker in Needle ca. Do you explore Needle Ca ? I had old photo 1910 ? but lost it.... Anyway many thanks to you for video on Manzanar ! I was also transported to other camp !
Manzanar was originally a speculative agricultural colony promoted heavily in southern California. Manzanar means fruit tree in Spanish and it was promoted to raise apples, peaches, etc. My family had a farm that was later included in the relocation camp boundaries on the southwest corner. Los Angeles Power & Water came through in the 1930s and bought up all of the land to acquire the water rights for the Los Angeles basin. So, they were relocated too, but not nearly in the manner that the Japanese suffered. This made it easy for the Federal government to acquire the land for the camp since they only had to deal with one governmental agency. My Japanese sister-in-law's family was relocated to Manzanar, and, just to chime in on education, in 1965, when I was in 4th grade, we were taught about Japan and Japanese culture and how to write Japanese characters with bamboo brushes. This teaching included the war-time interment at Manzanar and other camps.
Early this year I went to the town of Poston Az. There are some buildings left from another internment camp, along with some interpretive signs. A little south of Parker Az.
Great video. I've been to the Japanese American History Museum in Little Tokyo, LA. This video mirrors that experience. I live next to Long Beach/LA Ports. On Terminal Island there was once a J~American village of some 1,000 fishermen and women cannery workers. After Internment the following day the FBI bulldozed the entire village, church, temple, school and homes. I'm happy the book which tells this tale "Farewell to Manzanar" is required reading in some school districts.
We visited heart mountain a few years ago west of Powell Wyoming, it’s very sad!
not just origami, but very symbolic chains of cranes...also, in huell howser's manzanar episode of california's gold, there was an elaborate canal/reservoir system for the camp's water supply in the desert environs, plus several areas that the internees had autographed the then-wet cement around camp...the aquaducts and petroglyphs of our modern era...
Thank you for making this video -- I am still shocked when I mention this place, and people say, "What's Manzanar??". 😕
I brought 1000 cranes to the memorial. A couple other ppl did also. GREAT conversation starter. I had ppl walking up to me asking to take pictures with it even heheh
Interesting to note that the German American was not treated in this horrible way. And many were sympathizers. There were several BUND ralleys held in the US.
In Kingsburg, they have displays at the Heritage Park, of that history and those from town who were taken from their homes and interred at Manzanar. They had a survivor come and speak there. What a sad time in American history. Many of their descendants still live in Kingburg.
There is also one located in Wyoming near Cody Wy, where it gets very cold. I visited it and felt sad and angry at the same time
Tuolumne County had the internment camps for German & Italian POW's & citizens.
Oh I was hoping the beautiful gardens which they created while interned were included in this Doc. I would love to have seen them as they were. Never be repeated, could be again with the world as it is today concerning this rediculous pestilence war.
Much of what is there has been replicated. The gardens left uncared for.
My grandfather was a US Army MP from 1942 to 1946. He guarded German POW's in Pa. When I asked him about the camps for the Japanese he just shrugged and replied, " The Empire of Japan attacked us causing a World War, many I boy I once knew died in it. I have no regrets for what we did, this was war."
German POWs and Japanese internees were two entirely different situations. No wonder he was so insensitive; many patriots were at that time.
I visited this place approximately a year ago. It is a sad and desolate place. It was an emotional experience for me.
I know what you mean I went Father's Day 2020
I’ve always heard that the stanislaus county fairgrounds in Turlock hosted a Japanese internment camp. If true, it would be interesting to see a video on that issue since there isn’t much (if anything) memorializing the site.
My mom ,born 1935, remembers this and just how awful and sad she felt for them.
Yes it was lamentable to be sure!
Many years ago, I knew 2 Japanese Americans who were held at such an internment camp. They were the parents of a parishioner in the church that I attended at the time.
Has American really learned from the historical lessons of its past inhumane acts? Just a couple of years ago immigrant children were interned in cages at the border.
I, too, recently passed by the U.S. Monuments at Manzanar and Tule Lake Internment Camps, both in California, and posted my reflections about them on Facebook, which you can read about here: facebook.com/groups/924231351369805/permalink/1214180155708255/
Thank you for bringing this video to TH-cam.
I watch this because my grandpa a Japanese American, lived here for his childhood and after that went to veitnam, he told me about his childhood he faintly remebers those years cause of what happened all I remember is bacon island and this to
When I went through the Army the showers and Toilets were just like that,all open and no privacy,in the mid 70s. This concentration for the Japanese, was a sad sort of evil,in America.
At 4:07 there was also another camp in Merced CA. At the Fairgrounds.
There was one at Turlock but I am not sure about Merced. You may be correct but I know the Turlock Fairgrounds is where the collection center was.
@@jbenziggy Check Google.
@@jbenziggy I did not know about Turlock, I learn something.
I was just there in mid-June. I didn't see the cabins. However, everything was shut down, so I guess I went to the wrong area.
For a time, detainees were kept at what would become the San Joaquin County fairgrounds in Stockton. This episode of our history may be understandable, but was nevertheless a breathtakingly unjust policy. No one, now, can name an ethnicity that has a more stellar reputation. If I had a choice of neighbors, it's no contest... Japanese.
Their list camps on the map oddly leaves out Camp Harmony, a temporary transfer camp. While “not” a long term residency/internment camp, it did hold at its peak roughly 7,500 before people where sent on trains to the listed sites. We are not learning, we are hard at work forgetting! We are one “right trigger” from doing it with other groups, be it religious, race, or political stance; we’ll know which when it happens again, I hope I will not be so ignorant to participate. I feel like the current world issue might be to some a qualifying reason to revisit this kind of solution. Love the channel, keep at it. :)
Lordsburg New Mexico was not listed but was where my late husbands grandfather was interred. He was Issei (born in Japan) was at Lordsburg from May 1942 until his death in August 1942. He was 63 years old when he died. He lived in Juneau Alaska, Lordsburg... must have seemed like being dropped into hell.
Yeah what was done to these fine people is quite disturbing!
A tragic moment on our history. Yes the United States of America isn’t perfect, and we should study our history. She should not forget what happened and what could happen again. We may be the greatest nation on earth, but we are not without our faults.
I went here for the 50th pilgrim anniversary. Everyone here is kool and open to everything its hard to explain. Everyone was accepting of Everyone else. I am hispanic and felt welcome. Im sad tho i lost my water bottle that they gave out..
Go to little Tokyo in L.A on first street you will see one of the huts
Although I disagree with the Internment camps, I hate to think what would have happen to these people had they been left in normal society. I like to think it may have been the best thing for their welfare at the time. I am sure Roosevelt thought it out carefully. Also no worse, than what we did to the American Indians on their home land. Good video Jeff & Sarah !
Unfortunately Roosevelt is not as altruistic as we were taught. He actually was racist and anti Semitic. He denied thousands of Jews safe passage and they were sent back to Germany. He not only interred the Japanese, but German and Italian Americans as well. He also caved to DNC pressure to choose Truman as his VP. His former VP that had been with him since he was elected the first time was a pacifist. Truman was a war monger and racist as well.
FDR was a jerk
Maybe I can comment on this here without being deleted. I am not a civil rights activist. But General John DeWitt and Earl Warren were both the primary architects who orchestrated and were responsible for the signing of Executive Order 9066 later signed by FDR in 1942. My parents, grandparents and great grand parents were evacuated and forced to live at Camp Manzanar (Now a national monument near Lone Pine, CA behind barbed wire for three years (1942-1945). As were other Japanese Americans on the West Coast. Both of my parents were american citizens and forced to live there under armed guards and guard towers. You are very knowledgeable of CA history. But I also think that if you are going to tell the story of Earl Warren, then this dark part of his life should ALSO be told. Not just a few lines to tell what impact he had on more than 100K people. Thank you very much.
www.vqronline.org/essay/unacknowledged-lesson-earl-warren-and-japanese-relocation-controversy
This was hard to watch. So heartbreaking.
I went out there in the early 80s.there was nothing but main gate and it was gutted out
I grew up being told how great FDR was. Once I read the book farewell to manzanar and visited manzanar I then realized how I was taught wrong. It was all propaganda and that was in the 80’s and 90’s.
If only Eleanor had been president instead. Unfortunately the DNC coerced FDR into choosing Truman as his VP in FDR’s final election. FDR’s former VP was a pacifist. Truman unfortunately carried out the injustices to the Japanese by allowing the atom bombs to be set off.
FDR also caused our Cold War with Russia because he saw Stalin as a friend. People don’t realize how much FDR believed in Stalin’s values. FDR was hugely utopian and believed we could achieve peace through allying with Stalin. We should’ve only allied ourselves with England, France and other countries that believed in absolute freedom.
Anyways, thank you guys, Most people don’t know much about California’s history. They don’t realize how close the Japanese came to our coast during WWII. They were spotted off of Santa Barbara. this was the reason for the military bases that sprung up along our coast like Hueneme, pt. mugu and Camarillo Air Force base, Long Beach, etc.
Surely, they had windows that would open. I graduated from high school in the south. The year was 1965. None of our schools had air conditioning, no homes or cars had air-conditioning. I cannot remember any great discomfort. We just opened windows. Our teenage dating years, I guess we wore lots of anti-perspirant,,,,,LOL. We just weren't accustomed to something we knew nothing of.
It saddened me to hear what our country did after the Peal Harbor bombing, may we never repeat this atrocity again, great research by the way Jeff, I learned something.
I’m not so sure it was truly due to the Pear Harbor bombing. It’s certainly used as the main reason though.
Consider the following:
1. Hawaii was not even a US state back in WW2 time.
2. Niihau incident. Japanese nationals on this small island helped Japanese pilot escape but yet very few Japanese Hawaiians rounded up. They were rounded up and imprisoned. Most don’t know about this 11th camp. The US military realized that too many Japanese Hawaiians were built into the infrastructure. Doctors and nurses and firemen and post office, etc.
So if Japanese Hawaiians not rounded up en mass then why Japanese Americans on the west coast.
3. Bombing of Ellwood/Santa Barbara. Feb 1942. Roosevelt didn’t issue EO 9066 until Feb 1942. 2.5 months after Dec 7 attack.
There was indeed a push by California prospectors and land grabbers to indeed push out the Japanese Americans who turned various large places such as Napa Valley to productive farm land.
You never hear Democrat leaders of today in California bringing up reparations for Japanese Americans. Why?
FBI reports after they were declassified proved that the study said Japanese Americans were no threat.
Nothing ever occurred. No Japanese American ever convicted of espionage unlike German Americans.
HI Jeff..I forgot to ask....we were dialoguing about 6 months ago about the "Farell's F86 Crash" and you wanted to possibly do a piece on that. I Lost your contact info,., and it just went by the Wayside, and I forgot where we left it. My memory was jogged while watching this piece for some reason. Anyways, if you recall, I'm pretty familiar with that Airport because I've flown out of Executive many, many times. Dad was also an f86 pilot, who "might" be able to offer some insight if on the off chance you need some info from someone whom has actually flown that make and model. Anyways...drop me a note if still interested. Talk soon! Mac
There was another small camp in Arbuckle Ca. About an hour North of Sacramento on I-5 .. Jeff this is hard for me.. but WWII was the last war we won.. maybe it’s because of the hard line taken right up to and including Truman’s decision to drop not one but 2 bombs on Japan. Looking back.. maybe a better path was to offer them a place in the Army fighting the Germans! And the women.. well I doubt you could have put them in the war factories with white women but maybe in a factory of all Japanese women making things like shovels and hand tools and non gun related items for the war effort!! Just my thoughts and I always appreciate yours and the hard investigative work you do! Another 2 thumbs up!
Later on the government did allow Japanese Americans to volunteer--the 442nd Regimental combat team, All Japanese Americans. They were the most decorated unit in U.S. military history
SteveTerreberry brought me here!
These internment camps were horrible . I feel the real experiences aren't given because of " comfortable ignorance " .When I go to places like this Topaz UT for instance, I just have to stand and have a moment thinking of that era ,the individuals the whole ball of yarn and i walk away w a new respect and hope wish ppl would learn and respect history the good and bad so we don't repeat it .Thank you bolth so much such priceless history
My friend's family suffered great monetary loss because of this. They had a large farm that the govt. took. They got some compensation but it was basically a slap in the face. Another sad moment in our country's history.
Very sad episode of American history. Thanks for sharing about your friend’s family’s sad plight.
@@jbenziggy You welcome. This is why I'm so glad you are covering historical places and events: the recent unrest in our country and destruction of historical items doesn't erase history. Negative or positive we need these things to learn from. I'm from the East coast and don't know much about the west. Why I'm loving your videos. 😁
Went there in 2020
This place is close by mojave,
Very hot in the summer.
Very cold in winter
The Mountains of the Sierra nevada
Exactly we got there 1 p.m. this past Sunday it was a hundred and three degrees
Na época o presidente dos EEUU Roosevelt que não andava por causa de ter sofrido paralisia infantil,nem todo sabiam disso, sempre escondeu ,esse grande presidente !
After the war the camps were taken apart by Farmers, Ranchers and Home Builders for the material.
I went to school in the 80s/early 90s and we did hear about this - I remember a blurb in a history book. Mostly, I think I had a few rebel teachers. We also saw a Holocaust video that showed how hair was collected and made into rugs 🤢
They were interred for their safety, then the guard towers were erected with the guards facing the camp.
There was a camp at Tulelake in N. California. Next to it was a German POW camp.
Sad place brought on by fear :(
Yes, that is a very true statement since the vast majority hd adopted America as their new homeland!
The Hodda's who lived 4 doors east of my family were taken their. A complete disgrace.
Horrible, what they must have endured the time there. I don't think any amount can compensate the pain and hardship
This was a very sad time in history that I never knew about until I saw it on TV, probably the History Channel. Then, to the extreme, we allowed terrorists to come to our great country and taught them how to fly airliners. Will America ever learn which is the right way? Too strict or too lenient?
Regarding "America Sucks" comment. I agree, if people don't like it, they should go elsewhere. A lot of people have done just that and many are still trying. When I became a citizen of the USA, I felt proud to be an American. Less than two decades, I no longer feel that way for various reasons. I am also trying to go elsewhere, but like the people who were imprisoned at these camps, it would be impossible to uproot from their homes in 10 days without a major loss. This is worse for those who have established their lives here for many many decades, with network of friends, relatives, businesses and properties. Also, it should be noted that, not everyone who visits these camps are necessarily living in the USA.
Forgot to add that the history books have it wrong. Probably most people don't know anything about it. I don't think it's taught in schools.
The comments putting down what happened back then, did not live in that era!
I don’t know about that. Even Eleanor Roosevelt said her husband was wrong for rounding up US citizens of Japanese descent.
Do we forsake the principles of the Constitution when times get tough?
@@jbenziggy Like so many things in life, your feelings might be different had you been living during those days? Many ideas have changed over the years and it's easy to judge after the fact ?
Relocation Center? Nice euphemism for concentration camp
Sad page in our history.
Oh yeah? And that's just one page . ....imagine how much they not telling us
Paxton from ' never have i ever' brought me here
Sarah and I cannot figure out the meaning of your statement. LOL
It's a Netflix show..one episode they mentioned the camp
@@haneby1114 gotcha. Thanks for explaining that.
NASCAR driver Kyle Larson's Material Grandparents we're interned at one of these camps
Up to four years the Japanese Americans were in the camps
THIS WAS SAD.....
Very sad event in our history.
I went past there in March but everything was being closed down due to the virus.
Yeah this virus has ruined a lot of things but hopefully we're getting past it!
I just went there this past Father's Day everything is open except for the visitors center
What this video can’t show is the verbal and physical abuse that was given to these Americans! My grandparents often spoke about the verbal abuse they suffered there.
Sad episode for people who just wanted to be Americans.
Sad Times, I guess based on some facts at the time I guess He Thought it was the right thing to do, Either way, very sad
America had a lot POW camps
Sad part of history.