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Not just Japanese, but Germans, too.

It was a dangerous, frightening time in America. The "melting pot" that is our culture created large immigrant and first-generation populations living on American soil, a difficult thing for a country at war to reconcile and manage. What out leaders did was disgusting, but at the same time it was an unprecedented situation and they were scrambling to head off potential danger during the largest conflict in the history of mankind. 

For all the mistakes and the piss-poor treatment of our own people, all we can do now is hope that we learned from it. I think we have. Following 9/11 and during a pair of wars overseas, there have been no internment camps for Arab-Americans, no seizing of property. And aside from a few dangerous plots and some sad, lethal activities from mentally deranged individuals, we have seen the results of treating our own like they are our own. This is America, I don't have to like you, I don't have to like what you think, and I don't have to like what you say in order to realize and respect your right to do and think whatever you like as long as you aren't hurting anyone or inciting others to hurt anyone.  

I think future stories may also deal with the German internment camps. That is a little-known part of WWII history, that we were locking up German-Americans and Italian-Americans as well as the Japanese-Americans. Hell, we may not be the smartest people to ever live on the planet, but apparently we sure as fuck are thorough.