my grandparents came from europe. sometimes the usa makes a mistake.

Sometimes you feel like a nut...Sometimes you don't.

Almond Joy has nuts, Mounds don't.

lol

I go by that place everytime I go to Mammoth Lakes,CA. X

X, is it true they've turned it into a clothing optional resort?

Rick,

The day America set up several concentration camps is indeed a dark day. Actually made brighter by the grit and patriotism of the residents of those camps that insisted they be allowed to get into the service and die fighting for THEIR country. Indeed the Japanese American Army units fought and died with fanatic tenacity and many losses in the European theater. At the same time, their families were locked in concentration camps that were a lot less humane than stateside German and Italian POW camps. True American patriots in spite of the very rough treatment at the hands of our government, they taught us a lesion that lives on even today.

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a friend of mine was told to prepare to go to the camps with almost no notice. they had their house and all their belongings and no time to do anything about it.

a friend of thiers bought the house and belongings from them for one dollar. the friend stored all their belongings, rented the house, paid all the bills, and when the family was finally set free, their friend handed them back the ownership of the house with a savings account from the rent they collected that they did not need for the bills.

that is what life is suppossed to be about.

Rick,

The US government did give something like $20k in reparations to the surviving interred, however insulting that was after most of them were long dead, the Canadians, confiscated all Japanese immigrant's/resident's fishing vessels no compensation to date.

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The US did give some survivors 20k or so but did nothing for the Japanese who lost their property or businesses. X

DMV,It's a historical landmark. The place I think you're referring to is the Hot Springs just outside Mammoth Lakes. It is not a resort but some people do take it all off,usually Europeans. X

My old neighbor was sent to a relocation camp in L.A. during the war. Being a secong generation US citizen didn't make any diffeence.
He owned several hundred acres of fruit trees and misc farm land at the time. Some of the other local farmers kept his land and house up for him. When his family returned, his house was left in pristine shape and his farm well tended. His profits were in the bank, minus some operating expenses. Many of the farmers were disappointed in the US for sending him away, but he never expressed any ill fellings towards the government.

He has since minimized his farm. raised his family well and owns his original fruit stand still. even though he is a millionaire, he still lives in the humble little farm house in the middle of a residential neighborhood that used to be his farm.
A real nice man who honored his fellow farmers by never moving away from the house they saved for him.

That is a true American.