the government imposed a curfew on us we had to be home by 8pm at night, and stay home until 6am in the morning we were imprisoned in our homes at night. the next morning, if we went to the bank to make a deposit or a withdrawal, we discovered that our bank accounts were frozen. our life savings was taken from us. we were financially straitjacketed. so there you were your father, who was actually born injapan, your mother, who was ofjapanese origin, but she d been born in the us, and you and two siblings and you were taken to a camp. exactly, because of race. we were of japanese ancestry. the only immigrants to the united states. immigrants coming from all over the world were qualified to become naturalised citizens,
the government imposed a curfew on us we had to be home by 8pm at night, and stay home until 6am in the morning we were imprisoned in our homes at night. the next morning, if we went to the bank to make a deposit or a withdrawal, we discovered that our bank accounts were frozen. our life savings was taken from us. we were financially straitjacketed. so there you were your father, who was actually born injapan, your mother, who was ofjapanese origin, but she d been born in the us, and you and two siblings and you were taken to a camp. exactly, because of race. we were of japanese ancestry. the only immigrants to the united states. immigrants coming from all over the world were qualified
our life savings was taken from us. we were financially straitjacketed. so there you were your father, who was actually born injapan, your mother, who was ofjapanese origin, but she d been born in the us, and you and two siblings and you were taken to a camp. exactly, because of race. we were of japanese ancestry. the only immigrants to the united states. immigrants coming from all over the world were qualified to become naturalised citizens, except for immigrants from asia. and despite my father s rearing in san francisco, his education there, he was considered an ineligible immigrant. do you remember going to the first camp, which was actually a converted horse stable where you were kept and then progressively to a couple of other internment camps? i do, but that memory is that