Japanese American Internment
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On Feb. 19, 1942, two months after the Japanese's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order giving the military the authority to relocate and intern Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals living in the United States. Many Japanese citizens living in America near west coast were removed from their homes, against their will, to internment or relocation camps, including their children who were American born citizens. The Japanese-Americans should have been left alone; it was not right to put them into internment camp because they had no real reason to be there and it destroyed the acceptance of the Japanese-Americans.
Before internment was brought to surface the Japanese-American family living peacefully together with themselves and other Americans in neighborhoods, in the book Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and John D. Houston, they show Jeanne Wakatsuki's middle-classed family living the American dream in long beach away from the war. She had grown up as an American and that was all she knew. Her father Ko and two eldest brothers getting ready to go fishing own her fathers newly purchased boat but when they start to go out to see they turn around and reporting to their family that there was an attack on Pearl Harbor. In the book when Jeanne's family had found out about the attack on Pearl Harbor her mother, Sukai, asked, "What's Pearl Harbor?" which shows their lack of knowledge about what is happening in the war...