Japanese Camps

Dallas Danielson

Professor Hinds, Professor Inglett

ENGL-1213-EW10S

February 12, 2014

In Response to Executive Order 9066

In “In Response to Executive Order 9066” is about a fourteen year old Japanese girl writing a letter talking about how her life before she had to go to a Japanese Relocation Camp during World War II. The girl talks about how she had a best friend that was white and how they sat right next to each other in school everyday because of their names, O'Connor and Ozawa, both started with the same letter. The Japanese girl talks about how the white girl did not sit by her one day in Geography class and the white girl told her she was trying to start a war because she was telling secrets. The Japanese girl had no idea what the white girl was talking about and told her to miss her while she is gone. This girl had no idea what she was going to have to do. She did not know where she was going and did not even know why she was going. Was it the right thing to do for the government of America to pull all of The Japanese Americans out of there homes and into Relocation Camps because Japan surprised attacked them?

America assumed that when Japan surprised attacked on Pearl Harbor during World War II that all Japanese people were victim of sabotage and the reason why the attack was successful was because of Japanese American spies telling Japan secrets of America. As Anica Meller states on the Indiana University Web site, “After the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the nation of Japan on December 7, 1941, the American government panicked with threatening thoughts of dangerous enemies existing within the country. All individuals of Japanese ancestry were considered potential enemies of the United States, as result of government Order 9066, over 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were forced into relocation camps.” America was scared and felt as if they were vulnerable to enemy attacks. They did not know what to do. They had no idea the bombing was...