Behind barbed wire: Remembering America's largest internment camp

The incarceration of Japanese Americans from 1942 to 1946 remains a significant part of World War II history, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 notoriously eliminated the constitutional rights of people of Japanese ancestry while simultaneously portraying them as the foreign enemy. Jim Tanimoto

Satsuki Ina was born in the Tule Lake Segregation Center to kibei parents, who were separated when Ina’s father was sent to Fort Lincoln internment camp in Bismarck, North Dakota, after answering “no-no” to the loyalty questionnaire. After her family’s release at the end of the war, Ina grew up in San Francisco, then went on to become a university professor and psychotherapist specializing in trauma.

Jimi Yamaichi grew up in San Jose during the Great Depression and was transferred with his family from the incarceration camp in Heart Mountain, Wyoming, to Tule Lake, where he was hired as the construction foreman to build the camp’s concrete jail. He was one of 27 inmates in Tule Lake who resisted the military draft and, after a court hearing, had all charges dropped.

Jim Tanimoto: It was a Sunday. We were out in our orchard pruning peach trees and we didn’t have a TV, so we were listening to the radio, and when we came back home for lunch, my father said, “Listen to this!” We heard that Japan was attacking the Hawaiian Islands. We didn’t believe it, it couldn’t be true. But the radio kept repeating the same thing, over and over.

Jim Tanimoto: Some of the provisions of the order was that we couldn’t have guns, cameras, or radios. We also had a boundary we couldn’t cross, so we couldn’t travel anywhere. Highway 99 was our boundary in Gridley. My younger brother was still going to school, but his school was past the boundary, so he had to transfer schools and make new friends. The Tule Lake Relocation Center was opened May 26, 1942, in Siskiyou County near the southern border of Oregon.

George Nakano: I remember the conditions at Tule Lake being harsh, especially in wintertime with all the snow we had to stomp through and the cold wind blowing through our barracks at night. The summers gave us better weather.

Those who answered “yes-yes” were released early or moved out of Tule Lake, and those who answered “no-no” or deferred were branded as disloyal, and were imprisoned at Tule Lake.

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we have got to stop being victims of the past so society can heal.

The world would go broke giving reparations to all races because all races have been abused by all races through-out history and abuse has happened in all countries in history. Can we all grow up. All races have suffered & all have been slaves at one time in history. Prayers.

Can we stop teaching racial hate. Japan at the time would have done the same thing to anyone who was an American due to fears of people being more loyal to their home countries then where they were living. War is hell on everyone. all rights reserved

This begs the question: How many of them received Reparations? Just askin'

Looks so familiar!!! How do republicans treat fellow humans with such disdain and disrespect!!!?

realDonaldTrump HouseGOP SenateGOP Those who don't learn from past mistakes are doomed to repeat them!

How sad. God bless them.

We should do they same with Muslims.

GOOD!

Isn't it a disgrace? And I can totally see this happening again if the racist repugs stay in power.

We should do the same for Muslims that just came to our country in the last ten years. Vet them! Deport the bad ones.

Not right but different times easy to say now horrible but after Pearl Harbor and fear of California invasion people panicked

GeorgeTakei can relate to that as well!

Anything so NBC doesn’t have to report on the corrupt Democrats!!

A Democrat did that.

Wow, wasn’t fdr a TheDemocrats

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