In its zeal to exact that revenge, however, the U.S. government overreacted, out of fear and bigotry. They targeted everyone who happened to look like the people who had carried out the attack. Those of us who had done nothing wrong were forced to pay the consequences for the decisions of others far away and disconnected from us. We were interned for years, in open-air prisons, while America went off to fight Japan, Germany and Italy.

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It’s so important that we carry the lessons of the past through to today. Merely because one group commits atrocities and acts with depravity does not mean vast hundreds of thousands or even millions of others should be lumped together with them and made to suffer. We must never paint with the brush of justice and retaliation too broadly, or the toll of human suffering will rise immeasurably.

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@georgetakei
George,

I’m sorry what our ancestors did at Pearl Harbor.It was unjustifiable.

It caused Japanese Americans like you suffer despite you are American.

At the same time,please know
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were also unjustifiable. I learned ,just after WWII ended,NYT and Harvard dean spread misinformation “Atomic bomb were needed” despite US predicted Japan would surrender at the latest November.

Human tend to have act of revenge in their mind.
Kids like you back then,or my parents back then are most likely suffer despite they can stop nothing. I feel like “preaching “you, which I shouldn’t,

There were Japanese kids unjustly hurt and killed,
Like 2 years old in Palestine.