. The latter, one of just a handful of Shinto shrines left in the U.S., is a striking wooden A-frame structure with a whiteBy the end of WWII, not a single Japanese American was convicted of espionage. Decades later, reports surfaced indicating that military intelligence about Japanese sabotage in Hawaii prior to Pearl Harbor were fabricated.
Thousands of second-generation Japanese Americans answered the call of duty when the U.S. War Department announced that it was forming an all-Nisei combat team in 1943. The segregated 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the 100th Infantry Battalion fought valiantly in France, Italy, and North Africa. News of the soldiers’ heroic sacrifices may have led to the military easing restrictions on the islands in 1945. Such patriotism was credited to paving the way for Hawaii to become a state in 1959.
“My husband told me that a great weight came off his chest when he received the letter of apology written to him by in California. “It’s important to pass on the history of incarceration based on race prejudice, war hysteria, and the failure of political leadership. If we don’t, we remain ignorant of what has happened in the past, and it can and will happen again.”
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What about the German and Italian Americans held in Texas and other places?
... and people wonder why I feel like the education system is failing us. We committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during WWII, too. Everyone needs to know this part of history so that we don't do it again, or allow it to happen somewhere else again.
history sure can be ugly!!
One more example of the terrible things White America has done.
Along with he trail of tears, the Civil War, And the persecution of loyal in (just happen to be Japanese) American citizens.
one of US🇺🇸 darkest chapters on racial profiling
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