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Just to add to this, seven unarmed Japanese Americans were shot and killed by guards:

• Kanesaburo Oshima, 58, during an escape attempt from Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Reportedly had a mental breakdown from being incarcerated and the fear of being deported to Japan and attempted to climb the fence.
• Toshio Kobata, 58, and Hirota Isomura, 59, during transfer to Lordsburg, New Mexico. They were shot while walking towards the camp entrance. No witnesses other than the soldier who shot them, who was later acquitted of both charges.
• James Ito, 17, and Katsuji James Kanegawa, 21, during the December 1942 Manzanar Riot (guards tear gassed 500 residents who were peacefully protesting and shot the ones who ran towards them in a panic. Eyewitness says one of the guards yelled "Remember Pearl Harbor" right before a number of soldiers opened fire).
• James Hatsuaki Wakasa, 65, while walking near the perimeter wire of Topaz, his body was five feet within the fence. Sentry was acquitted of manslaughter during his court martial.
• Shoichi James Okamoto, 30, during a verbal altercation with a sentry at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Was assaulted by a guard after refusing to show his pass and was then shot after a verbal argument. The sentry was acquitted of homicide but was fined one dollar for the cost of a bullet fired in an "unauthorized use of government property."

http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Homicide%20in%20camp/

For the National Park Service, you can comment here: https://parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm?documentID=75566

I encourage everyone to comment to support "Alternative C" which states:

The NPS preferred alternative emphasizes raising national awareness about the Tule Lake Unit’s unique incarceration, segregation, and renunciation history and its resources. Historic resources would be protected through stabilization and historic preservation treatments, and year round visitor experiences would be provided. Interpretive and educational programs would focus on engaging youth, and technology and digital media would be used extensively to introduce Tule Lake to new audiences and tell the unit’s stories.

The other two options seem to either scale back the site or avoid making any improvements.

One shitty part is that the people who refused to be drafted, because shit, why should they be drafted if their families are in concentration camps? Many of them were sent to Tule Lake where they kept the "trouble makers" in conditions much worse than the other concentration camps.

http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Loyalty_questionnaire/

Yup. Among the most decorated units for its size and suffered one of the highest casualty rates.

One of their most famous battles was rescuing 211 men of the so called "Lost Battalion" of the Texas 141st Regiment that was surrounded and cut off deep behind enemy lines in France. The 442nd suffered hundreds of casualties to free the Texans after six days of fighting.

http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Rescue_of_the_Lost_Battalion/

It makes me wonder. How many of those Texans supported incarcerating Japanese Americans and the families of the soldiers who fought and died to rescue them.

Dropping 50k into bank of america and nothing else seems so incredibly dumb. What if they were the only bank to fold during the recession?