Forsaken Fields
Forsaken Fields gave a lot history on Japanese-Americans from before,during and after World War II. The Japanese-Americans had the Alien Land Law which was put in force before the war. This law prohibited the Japanese who just arrived from Japan from becoming citizens which enabled them from owning land. The Japanese-Americans were smart and they found loopholes in this law. If you are born in America you are an American citizen, so Japanese would purchase there land in there children name who were American citizens. The Alien Land Law was just the start of the Japanese- Americans trouble in America. They came to America for the American dream, but all they got was hostility and anger. People want to come to America to work hard, and earn a life for them self and there family. I think most people who were born and raised in America take for granted the freedom we have. Americans are generally lazy people. Americans don't see that same freedom, and the American dream that foreigners visualize. I think it is sad that these Japanese- Americans came so far in search of a great place, and were treated so poorly. Even before the War; Japanese-Americans had a hard time finding someone who would sell them land, or
had noting to return to. Their crops had been dead and land thrashed and it took Even man and woman were not able to board American flights because of the land. A lot of Americans were concerned that Japanese were going to make more were segregated at restaurants. People even put up stuff like "Japs go Home" in were even targeted and burnt down. This had to be very hard for them to deal with them knowledge of all the different types of plants. Most children before the war on a everyday bases. I think they handled very well. same since the 1940's Pearl Harbor Attacks, although we have made vast hard because most of the internment camps were in the desert. They loved
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