Mr. Doi was really kind to come in and share his personal story with us, and from hearing about internment by one of the victims I was able to see it from a different perspective.  His description of the contrast before and after Pearl Harbor in America surprised me.  Before, society was very mixed and his friends were of a variety of races.  After Pearl Harbor, attitude changed overnight, and the Japanese-Americans were despised and rounded up into camps under the President's order 9066.  With what we've learned, I had forgotten that the Japanese-Americans didn't actually know what was going on, but Mr. Doi's point of view, I realized that all they knew was that they were leaving their homes and going somewhere.  They didn't know where they were going or how long they would be gone, and many had to give up what they had worked to achieve for their entire life. My initial belief was that the Japanese-Americans hated FDR, but as Mr. Doi explained, they blamed his advisers who pressured him into opening the camps.  In the camp that Mr. Doi was in, he recalls an organized education system, and lots of sports, which sounds a lot like school systems today.  His personal experiences and descriptions of being hauled off and living in a random place far away from your old home gave me a deeper level of understanding as to what the Japanese-Americans went through both physically and mentally.  Once let free, he made clear the fact that the Japanese-Americans had just time warped three years.  Some peoples stuff was gone, stolen by racist neighbors.  Others was in the same shape that they had left it.  I was happy to hear that not all Americans were blind to the racism and stuck by their friends and neighbors.  That said, there was still the issue of getting a job and your life back on track.  The $20,000 that was awarded to the victims of the Japanese-American concentration camps wasn't really enough to compensate for the loss.  Mr. Doi explained that yes, it is money and can benefit some people, but it doesn't repay the people who lost more.  Also, they lost 3 years of their life behind the fences, and no amount of money can pay for that.  Mr. Doi sees great improvement from the days of the camps, and our modern society seems to line up closely with what he had described it as before Pearl Harbor.  From Mr. Doi's story I learned a lot more than what a textbook could teach, and it also came along with the emotion and power that a part of history like this deserves.