They told us, 'You were put here to protect you.' But the guns were pointed into the camp, not out.

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/obituaries/570083,CST-NWS-XOSHI23.article

Drafted from internment camp into war

Became translator in occupied Japan, then company executive here

September 23, 2007
BY LARRY FINLEY Staff Reporter/[e-mail]

Hosen Oshita was president of his Rohwer, Ark., high school student body and made the National Honor Society in 1944, the same year he was drafted for the U.S. Army in the war against Japan.

He and his family were inmates of the Rohwer Relocation Camp for Japanese Americans at the time, but he did not question the draft notice or his confinement, according to his daughter Jody Bajor.

"He did what he had to do," she said. "He did what he was told. He would always say, 'I am going to rise above this.' He maintained his respect."

Mr. Oshita, 81, died Sept. 3 of a heart attack in his Northbrook home. snip

Mrs. Oshita spent the war at Minidoka Internment camp near Twin Falls, Idaho, where she picked potatoes along with German prisoners of war and Mennonite conscientious objectors.

The Japanese Americans "felt that we were cheated and treated unfairly, especially those who were drafted," she said. "They told us, 'You were put here to protect you.' But the guns were pointed into the camp, not out."

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1. kick - and the neo cons are confining americans as I type this

this isn't the land of the free anymore.

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2. Had Japan mounted an invasion of the West Coast while our cities were being reduced to rubble

I bet we would've seen the internees liquidated along with other so-called unreliable elements.

Oh yes, it can happen here. It can happen anywhere.

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3. thanks FDR ntxt

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4. We forget this kind of stuff at our own peril n/t

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5. .