There is a attempt to make the "relocation" sites sound like nice towns created and run by the Japanese. In reality, families were forced to live in close quarters with other families with only blankets separating families in the tar paper shacks provided. Water and medical care were scarce. Dignity was stripped from all who came here.

Yet the military made its appearance to demand volunteers to join the Army. Many of the young men did. Some asked for a restoration of their civil rights before joining. These individuals were branded as troublemakers. They were separated from their families and relocated again at high security camps. Those who served, first in Europe and later in the Eastern theater, were some of the most decorated soldiers of WW II.