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Buddha statue
1943
carved by Teruo "Ted" Murata at Poston internment camp, Arizona
Americans were proud of their role in fighting against totalitarianism and for democratic ideals during World War II. But the nation sometimes failed to live up to its principles, most obviously with the imprisonment of Japanese Americans in internment camps during the war. Citing fears of espionage, the federal government violated the civil liberties of over 100,000 people, many of them U.S. citizens. |