LAD/Blog #35: Home was a Horse Stall

Japanese Internment Camp

            Sox and her family were just one of the many innocent families pushed into internment camps by the American government. The hostility towards Japanese-Americans was absolutely unacceptable, even though thousands had been lost in the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This was just another way for racist Americans to express their feelings in the name of patriotism. Store owners began to turn away Japanese customers, leaving them without food or clothing and violence sprang up once again. FDR officially made it clear to Japanese-Americans that they were unwelcome in the United States by issuing Executive Order 9066 and the Civilian Exclusion Order No. 27. Although it was very obvious that FDR was trying to keep American citizens from retaliating, but the Japanese internment camps could even be compared to the concentration camps in Nazi Germany. Sox and her family had to stay in an extremely small horse stall with nothing but straw pallets to sleep on. When they were moved once again, the barracks under construction made Sox very happy. The barracks were sadly such a blessing to these Japanese-Americans, who had everything taken away from them. These Japanese-Americans faced so much wrong after Pearl Harbor, all of which was not their fault. I feel extremely sad for these people who lost most of their possessions and the pieces they brought from home to remind them of their native culture.

Similar to the internment camps, Native Americans

were forced onto reservations where they were

forcibly controlled and assimilated.