Japanese Internment Camp Speaker

Hearing Mr. Doi talk about his experiences before, during, and after he was in the camp was very interesting to hear it from someone who was actually there. I thought it was cool when he said that in school before being in the camp, that he did have friends of different races and cultures, but how some Japanese kids were badly mistreated. I was amazed how his life changed in a split second because of Pearl Harbor. Everyone, especially him, must have been so scared of what would happen next. I can't believe how no one stood up for the Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor, even though some of them didn't have anything to do with it. Later, he said that the American Navy in the Pacific Ocean became helpless and the American Navy in the Atlantic Ocean couldn't help them, but the Japanese didn't take advantage of that. If they did, the U.S would have been in danger, but they didn't. I also thought it was cool when I heard that when the war started, the Japanese were not a small minority. Another thing that I liked was that the FBI didn't think it was necessary to put the Japanese Americans into internment camps and that there was no logical reason for putting them there. The one thing I didn't get was how they divided the people up by what they thought of the camps. While being interned I thought it was interesting how he passed the time, which were ordinary activities. When he talked about his and his family's reaction to being released and of the reparations, it was intriguing how he explained it. His family was so shocked that they were finally being released after so many years. Then he said that some people refused the reparation money because it was insulting to them how little they received for how much they went through. He also said that some people didn't have much before being interned, so they were happy to take what money they could get. Overall, I was so happy that I got to hear him speak about being interned from his own point of view.