On the penultimate day of our trip we passed through Lone Pine on the 395. Just to the north we stopped to have a look at Manzanar. It is a controversial place, as it is one of the ten internment camps erected to incarcerate Japanese Americans from 1942 to 1945.
People still argue over the correct name of the facility with the more militant insisting that it be called a concentration camp.
There is no doubt that to many of the internees the incarceration was a dreadful punishment for just being of Japanese heritage. Some no doubt were spies, but mostly they were peaceful citizens as shocked at the unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor as anyone else. So if the same thing happened today, what would you do?
To read more about the events you can read more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzanar
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