Internment-2

INTERNMENT ====//By the end of 1942, more than 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry had been uprooted from their homes. Their final destinations would be one of 10 camps — "instant cities" — constructed by the War Relocation Authority in seven states. Deeply isolated from the rest of America, these "evacuees" — 65 percent of whom were American citizens — would spend up to four years imprisoned, working to rebuild their lives. - from A More Perfect Union, http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/non-flash/internment_main.html////====

Photograph 1:
==="From 1942 to 1946, home for most Japanese Americans was one of 10 WRA camps, all patterned on military facilities. Hastily built, with tarpaper walls and no amenities, the barracks were hot in summer and cold in winter. Most did not meet minimal standards for military housing. A visiting judge noted that prisoners in federal penitentiaries were better housed."  ===

**Photograph 2: **
==="We were fed things we weren't accustomed to. Beef brains, tongue, kidneys and liver were the mainstay of the kitchens. We had very few Japanese staples." —George Sakamoto, //The Japanese American Family Album===