In the dialogue box below please respond thoroughly to the following scenario.
Fate 1 February 19, 1942 President Roosevelt issues executive order 9066 interning all persons of Japanese ancestry in various relocation camps along the western seaboard and other states in the West.You see a posting indicating the time and date you must register to be relocated and your entrance into work is barred by armed national guardsmen.You return home. Describe the conversation with your family that ensues. What do you take with you? Why?
Fate 2 As an Issei, your father's business and political involvement in the community has come under great scrutiny and his loyalty to the United States is being questioned. Due to increasing suspicion of yellow peril, your father has been imprisoned while the rest of your family has been evacuated to Manzanar Detention Center. What is your life like now? Reflect on democracy as it is being carried out by the U.S. government.
Fate 3 Your sister will be leaving the camp to attend college, an opportunity your family would never have offered her except as a way to escape internment. You, also, have been offered a way out, although it may be less desirable. The U.S. government is asking you to step up and do your patriotic duty. Enlist and serve your country. Of course no one told you when you joined that you were being sent to Burma to fight the Japanese. How do you respond to your government? What does your family say and how do you answer them? Are you regretting your decision? Explain.
Fate 4 The Holocaust was a horror beyond compare. Although the degradation you experienced as a result of internment was not as profound as the persecution of the Jews, you were, nonetheless, severely victimized. Despite the humiliation of internment, you rose to every occasion when your nation called you to duty even fighting in the Pacific against the Japanese. This week, little clear warning, the United States dropped two atomic bombs: one on Hiroshima and the other on Nagasaki, Japan. The extent of the suffering and devastation caused by this attack is just being learned yet the disregard for Japanese life is apparent. What went through your mind as a Nissei, when you heard of the bombing? How did you Issei parents react? What is our opinion of democracy and America, now?