(not a poem, it's a history assignment)

Many teenagers are angry, blaming their parents for the internment.


What about supplies?

Food supplies are a problem; wartime rationing means the prisoners’ food is often
stolen for resale on the black market.


Overall, what is the main feeling about internment.

it's been really devastating.



What other thoughts do you have?

i think that some of us should have been spared. Like fishermen and ww1 veterans
but they are internees too.


How did your family react when they heard about the interments?

my father considered making a legal protest to what he considered an unconstitutional action.
But when armed sailors came to take us away, he surrendered without struggle. troublemaking
means you get moved around a lot.  At my family’s first stop—a makeshift camp, we slept on
hay in a stall. After Manzanar, we lived in Tule Lake, California, then in New Mexico,
then Texas.


well, i heard they make you work...what type of labor is it?
we have to convert fishing net into camouflage. we hate it. the Geneva Convention forbade forcing
prisoners of war to aid in a war effort.


What got you into trouble? What else has happened?

At Manzanar, everything was in english and you could be jailed for translating camp policy,
dining schedules,and work-program information into Japanese for generations who couldn’t
understand English: they also forbid the use of Japanese at public meetings.  internees
protested by rioting outside the camp’s administration building unarmed
prisoners were injured or killed when guards fired their machine guns into the crowd.


Is there anyone or organization trying to help the internees?

ACLU lawyers try to help by filing a writ of habeas corpus that challenged the
constitutionality of interning U.S. citizens without charges or due process of law.
many people drop suit, they give up because camp authorities’ harassment.