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Citizens Behind Wire: The Truth of America’s Internment Camps (1942–1945)

Citizens Behind Wire: The Truth of America’s Internment Camps (1942–1945)

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 In February 1942, three sharp knocks interrupted a quiet morning in coastal California. A Japanese American family—a fisherman, his wife, and their two children—were given forty-eight hours to abandon their home. Their crime? Looking like the enemy.This episode traces their journey from the horse stalls of Santa Anita to the dust-choked barracks of Manzanar, where privacy vanished and dignity became a relic of the past. Through a daughter’s hidden diary, a son’s silent rage, and a mother’s quiet defiance, their story exposes the human cost of America’s wartime hysteria.Decades later, their testimony before Congress would force a reckoning. But the questions linger: How does a nation repair what it tried to erase? And when fear strikes again, who will pay the price?
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