Kooskia Internment Camp In Idaho

Hello there, Merry the Coward.

So, how do you know that the internment of Japanese was "racist driven"?

And, by what authority do you assign penance to America?

I would guess that my "getting to be as annoying" is due to my not defering to your opinion, since I don't remember any facts to back up your opinion.

Would you rather I pander to you, and grovel in front of your postings?

That was said for its humorous effect.

If I think I'm a victim, you might see why, based on your interacting with more than a few Americans that think that they are always correct, in my opinion.

Then by default, Foofie wins the popularity contest.

Yes.

Thanks for posting this ed.

Thanks, panz.

True about "protection." The guns on the guard towers were pointed into the camp; not out. Some were killed for getting too close to the fence.

Also, thanks to edgar for starting this thread. Even I didn't know about Kooskia. A few years ago, my wife and I attended a reunion at Tule Lake camp in Northern California where I and my family were interred, and learned for the first time that there was a camp near ours with German and Italian prisoners.

Andy and farmerman both know what they're talking about; and others with their bigoted statements don't have a clue about the story about Americans of Japanese ancestry during WWII and now.

Americans of Japanese ancestry are well assimilated into America; most of our children are married to other races and ethnicities - including English, German, black, Dutch, Russian, Italian, Chinese, and Polynesian.

Before, during, and after WWII, the Americans of Japanese ancestry were the second largest Asians in the US behind the Chinese. Today, we are the smallest group of Asians in America.

I hope you post more C.I. You're a living link to this tragedy.

Feel free to ask any question, but don't forget that I was only six years old when we went into camp, and ten when we got back to Sacramento.

I see.
Any recollections will be greatly appreciated.

As a child, most of us didn't have any problem to speak of. It was the older generation who suffered greatly for their loss of freedom.

Children acclimate to most conditions.

I do remember going to Japanese school in the morning, and English school in the afternoon. Had to learn our multiplication table in Japanese school.

In January of this year, my siblings and I met with a fellow who now lives in Honolulu, but knew each other in the camp. I didn't recognize him at all!

I took some pictures when we attended the reunion, but my wife and I are leaving for dinner soon, so I'll post them later today or tomorrow.

There are two mountains that was on two sides of our camp.
This one we called "castle rock."

We called this "pancake mountain."

The camp was situated between these two mountains. Since this was once where native Americans lived, we found many flints and arrowheads in the sands.

Here's a picture of our camp in 1943.

Then we are on the same page.

I don't suppose they had ski trips to those mountains, eh, CI? What mountains are they? How high?

I don't think so, you showed your true colours when you put the kibosh on my thread about Iran.

I appreciate the candor of your recollections, CI. That's how history gets accumulated, and it is not often from such a perspective.

Yeh true, Im g;ad you've opened the door on that part of our history. I hope theres a collective journal effort at Tule like I seen from Manzanita . Even though there were efforts of these reports to "whitewash" the ones from Manzanita, the full essence of the bad nd the very bad gets through to the readers and lets them reach their own conclusions.
As we saw in 9/11, as a nation we still haven't fully "Grown up" to protect the civil rights of all citizens and not leave it to some bodily structural feature to decide "potential disloyalty" during a crisis;
In our defense, we were not alone , nor unique in history. All nations that dabbled in "Empire" practiced from the same rule books

The truth will out. Take me there, if you want, and show me how and where I did that.