![]() ![]() (Irony of irony, it was the most decorated unit in U.S. military service and their lives after internment. before moving on to a discussion of the people, camps, conditions, Japanese-Americans in U.S. Sandler opens with a history of the Japanese in the U.S. government’s treatment of these innocent people remains a smear on the nation. Still, as the book’s subtitle conveys, the disgrace and shame of the U.S. A few government officials did object to the order, questioning its constitutionality. Whole families were housed in one small room, with meals in mess halls and humiliatingly public sanitary facilities. Neither the temporary holding centers nor the 10 internment camps were ready to house, feed and care for the evacuees. citizens––from their homes in Washington, Oregon and California to detention camps. military to relocate over 100,000 Japanese-Americans––many were U.S. Historian Sandler presents a cogent survey of Executive Order 9066 and its aftermath. ![]()
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