Existing comment:
No Mass Detention in Hawai'i
Hawai'i's economy depended on Japanese American labor. About 160,000 people of Japanese ancestry lived there when the war began. Over 1,000 were forcibly confined. Another 1,000 family members "voluntarily" joined their husbands and fathers in mainland camps -- 230 came to Topaz.
Why would the Army consider the mass exclusion of all Japanese Americans a "military necessity" on the West Coast, but not in Hawai'i? |