February 19, 1942: Americans ordered into concentration camps

[rambone]

February 19th, 1942:

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which ordered the roundup of some 120,000 Americans of foreign ancestry. These people were stripped of their liberty and property and tossed into concentration camps run by the military. They lived in torrid conditions, were force-vaccinated, and lived behind barbed wire fences. Escapees were either captured or shot on-sight.

In Hawaii, between 1,200 and 1,800 people watched the war from inside military prisons.

Of those interned, 62 percent were U.S. citizens. The U.S. government also caged around 11,000 Americans of German ancestry and some 3,000 Italian-Americans.

Some say "it can't happen here." It already has.

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[Disposable Heart]

A forgotten day in our history. I have several black and white, high definition pics on my computer of the Japanese camps, the citizens being loaded onto the busses, etc...

 

[Bennettjh]

Boy that's disheartening. I hope nobody ever has to go through that again.

 

[mike8170]

Boy that's disheartening. I hope nobody ever has to go through that again.

We will never let it happen again.

 

[Bennettjh]

We will never let it happen again.

I agree. I would do anything I could to prevent that.

 

[hornadylnl]

We will never let it happen again.

Evidently you don't know human nature very well.

 

[rambone]

MODOC COUNTY, CALIFORNIA (Between 1943-1946)

Two Americans are captured trying to escape from the Tule Lake Segregation Center

The camp was entirely surrounded by a high barbered-wire fence with guard towers spaced at regular intervals, each manned and equipped with a searchlight and machine gun. In addition, within the center but outside the detainee area, there was a large fenced-in space where a battalion of military police and a number of army tanks were kept for "security duty." Tule Lake, as well as each of the other ten centers, had a project jail or similar enclosed area where draft resisters, NO/NO boys, and the like were confined.

The prisoners weren't released until March 1946, after the war had ended.

Tule Lake (Calif.) Segregation Center

Tule Lake Concentration Camp

Tule Lake Unit, World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[shibumiseeker]

A forgotten day in our history. I have several black and white, high definition pics on my computer of the Japanese camps, the citizens being loaded onto the busses, etc...

Not forgotten by me.

I will not stand by and let something like that or something along the lines of "Hotel Rwanda" happen around me, no matter how unpopular the groups it's happening to is.

 

[Disposable Heart]

4

Found 'em...

 

[CathyInBlue]

Just remember, the past is prologue.

 

[rambone]

1942: PASADENA, CA -- American soldiers supervise the rounding up of American citizens of Japanese descent, as they board trains to be shipped off to internment camps. This train was heading to a camp in the Mojave desert.

The Shameful History of WWII Japanese American Internment

 

[rambone]

1942: SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- American citizens are force-vaccinated as they are processed and registered for imprisonment in FDR's concentration camps.

San Francisco, Calif., Apr. 1942 - evacuees of Japanese descent being inoculated as they registered for evacuation, and assignment, later, to war relocation authority centers for the duration of the war

vaccination – Studying Poston

 

[hornadylnl]

Sonderkommando - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[rambone]

American actor George Takei at Rohwer Camp in Arkansas, where he and his family were imprisoned during World War II. Takei became best known playing the part of "Mister Sulu" from Star Trek (1966–69).

Rohwer Relocation Camp was constructed in the late summer and early fall of 1942 as a result of Executive Order 9066 (February 19, 1942). Under this order, over 110,000 Japanese Americans and their immigrant parents were forcibly removed from the three Pacific Coast States—California, Oregon, and Washington. In all, ten camps were established in desolate sites, all chosen for their distance from the Pacific Coast. Over 10,000 evacuees passed through Rohwer during its existence, and over two thirds of these were American citizens. The monuments found within the camp's cemetery are perhaps the most poignant record of this time.

Rohwer War Relocation Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[rambone]

Potential terrorists are photographed inside the American concentration camp called Manzanar.

Dorothea Lange Gallery Gallery - Manzanar National Historic Site

 

[rambone]

1942: Following FDR's order for Japanese descendants to be put in concentration camps, this store, at 13th and Franklin Streets in Oakland, was closed. The owner, a University of California graduate of Japanese descent, placed the I AM AN AMERICAN sign on the store front before he was shipped off to a camp.

 

[rambone]

U.S. soldiers stand guard as Americans line up for mandatory registration, prior to being hauled off to camps.

 

[dsol]

We will never let it happen again.

Did you mean to put that in purple? As is this could never happen now?

Or seriously as in some of us would never permit that to happen without a fight now?

I hear all the time from liberals that they are not trying to take anyone's guns away... I always have to remind them of Feinsteins "if I could have gotten 51 votes, mr and mrs america, turn them in". I always ask exactly what good registration would do except tell people that want to take them where they are... stuff like that then makes them huff and walk away. Funtimes.

 

[lucky4034]

I agree. I would do anything I could to prevent that.

Are you sure you don't want to turn them to glass?

 

[Liberty1911]

Are you sure you don't want to turn them to glass?

In this case, I believe we actually did.