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What was it like in the Internment Camps?
The internment camps weren't nearly as bad as the concentration camps in Germany, but they were still not the most ideal place that you would want to be living in. "They lived in barrack-like conditions, standing in long lines for little food, eating off of tine pie plates in big mess hall" (Website 1). This shows that, they weren't treated the best way that they could be treated, and that the people "taking care" of them didn't really care about them. Everyone believed that they were the ones to attack Pearl Harbor, and that they were spies waiting for their next chance to get ahead of the Americans. "In the early years of the incarceration, grizzled old Army cooks, used to feeding armies of men, now fed women and children. It was wartime, with strict rationing for everyone" (Website 1). They were starving and the fact that they weren't receiving as much food as they needed didn't really help that situation in the slightest. They would be spending day after day hoping that they could leave this place and be able to have a decent meal, and not worry about if their children had enough to eat. Children under 12 were the only ones that could receive milk, they rest of them had to learn to live without it. The Japanese Americans that were stuck their didn't know what they did to deserve this, most of them were innocents.
There were many Japanese-Americans that had to live in these internment camps, "...more than 110,000 Japanese Americans living along the West Coast, whom the order would soon force into the internment camps" (Website 2). This was just along the West Coast, they were innocents that did nothing wrong and they soon had to leave their homes because America didn't know who did what, or what someone was going to do. They were just trying to be safe and not be sorry later. Of these 110,000 Japanese Americans, they would numbered and then moved to 1 of 10 internment camps in Colorado, Wyoming, 2 places in Arizona, Utah, and also 2 places in California. They would have to learn to endure whatever they were given, the heat, the cold, the rain, and the snow. They had to learn to live with whatever they were given in the internment camps. "The camps were generally located in remote, desert areas" (Website 2). Since they were located in desert areas, it was always hot, especially for those in areas like Arizona and Utah they would have to live in over 100 degree weather. The Japanese Americans in these internment camps definitely did not have it easy.
Everyone thought that this was the best thing they could do when in reality it was vile to think that any of it was even remotely okay, "This large-scale imprisonment of U.S. citizens solely on the basis of their ancestry was met with almost universal approval by the non-Japanese American population, and was accepted largely with no question" (Website 3). People believed that this was best for everyone involved. They would show up to these interment camps that looked like prisons in deserts that had watch towers and were surrounded with barbed-wire. Each of these areas was chosen for how secluded it was, so that no one would really know what was going on. They had to sleep in compartments with no running water and they would have their small meals in a large mess hall with every other person in the internment camp. "The traditional structure of the Japanese family, with its emphasis on close bonds and respect for elders, was undermined by the camps' informal social milieu, where children could play for hours unsupervised and young people ate their meals with their friends rather than their parents" (Website 3). While in these internment camps, the people started forgetting where they came from and their tradition, probably because, they were being punished for being who they are. they would spend more time with friends than family, when that was the time that you needed to be with your family the most.
There were many Japanese-Americans that had to live in these internment camps, "...more than 110,000 Japanese Americans living along the West Coast, whom the order would soon force into the internment camps" (Website 2). This was just along the West Coast, they were innocents that did nothing wrong and they soon had to leave their homes because America didn't know who did what, or what someone was going to do. They were just trying to be safe and not be sorry later. Of these 110,000 Japanese Americans, they would numbered and then moved to 1 of 10 internment camps in Colorado, Wyoming, 2 places in Arizona, Utah, and also 2 places in California. They would have to learn to endure whatever they were given, the heat, the cold, the rain, and the snow. They had to learn to live with whatever they were given in the internment camps. "The camps were generally located in remote, desert areas" (Website 2). Since they were located in desert areas, it was always hot, especially for those in areas like Arizona and Utah they would have to live in over 100 degree weather. The Japanese Americans in these internment camps definitely did not have it easy.
Everyone thought that this was the best thing they could do when in reality it was vile to think that any of it was even remotely okay, "This large-scale imprisonment of U.S. citizens solely on the basis of their ancestry was met with almost universal approval by the non-Japanese American population, and was accepted largely with no question" (Website 3). People believed that this was best for everyone involved. They would show up to these interment camps that looked like prisons in deserts that had watch towers and were surrounded with barbed-wire. Each of these areas was chosen for how secluded it was, so that no one would really know what was going on. They had to sleep in compartments with no running water and they would have their small meals in a large mess hall with every other person in the internment camp. "The traditional structure of the Japanese family, with its emphasis on close bonds and respect for elders, was undermined by the camps' informal social milieu, where children could play for hours unsupervised and young people ate their meals with their friends rather than their parents" (Website 3). While in these internment camps, the people started forgetting where they came from and their tradition, probably because, they were being punished for being who they are. they would spend more time with friends than family, when that was the time that you needed to be with your family the most.