Sunday, June 1, 2014
Japanese internment speaker
Mr. Doi's presentation last Friday was very intriguing and eye-opening and there were many surprising aspects of internment. During his childhood, it surprised me how racist thoughts still existed, especially to the extent he described. After the bomb, I didn't know that the FBI had tried to convince the president to not go though with "9066" and intern the Japanese Americans. In the camps, he described how they all had activities to do everyday. I didn't know they were busy, I thought all they did was work. When they got out and he told us about the two different types of neighbors, I was relived to hear that there were some sensible people of that time. In the last section, I had never thought of the reperations as an apology for internment which was very intriguing. The presentation was very informative and it gave me a first hand view of a big historical moment.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with what you wrote. I didn't know either that the FBI thought and tried to convince not to go through with the order "9066". I also didn't know that they did several activities each day. The presentation was also very informative to me and it let me see what it really was like.
ReplyDeleteI also agree, I definatly learned a lot from Mr. Doi. I too was relieved to hear that there were nice neighbors that held the Japanese people's possessions for the, but I was shocked to hear that some of the people who promised to take care of the possessions, would just sell them away for their own personal profit. I was also very surprised that the FBI tried to convince FDR to not follow through with the "9066" order, especially when we learned that the FBI assisted in putting the Japanese into the camps.
ReplyDeleteI also agree, Mr. Doi's presentation taught me a lot about different aspects of internment I hadn't heard before. I was surprised to hear that some neighbors would promise to take care of people's things then just sold them and set their house on fire. I thought also before the presentation that camp life revolved around work and there was not much free time. Mr. Doi's presentation definitely gave me some information that otherwise I might have not gotten from articles and, that can only be heard from someone who was there.
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