Hayashida Argumentative Essay

My great grandmother Hayashida used to tell me horrendous stories of days that seemed to be from a lifetime ago, stories that were so terrible until recently I believed them to be fiction. Childhood stories of confinement and curfews, laws and discrimination. She often told me she had a hard time recalling exact events because of her young age, but the stories were always the same with the same vivid detail. Could you imagine that one day you received notice that you and your entire family must be ready to move? You could take only the possessions you could carry and no one would tell you when you would be permitted to return home. Does this sound like a bad dream to you? This happened to thousands of residents within the United States. …show more content…
On December 7, 1941 Japan’s plans succeeded with an attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Outraged President Franklin Roosevelt declared war with Japan the next day. With the United States fleet out of the way for the time being, Japan seized the opportunity and tried to take oil resources from Southeast Asia. The attack on Pearl Harbor turned America into a war production economy. Military needs were in demand and quickly took priority over consumer goods. After Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 in 1942, which allowed the military to relocate the Japanese to temporary centers in a precaution to protect American …show more content…
America not only had to fight a war overseas, America was created a war amid its citizens at home. These internment camps will go down in America’s history as one of the biggest discriminations of all time. Although there should be a balance between civil liberty and security, targeting U.S citizens of a certain ethnicity is not the way to do it. Targeting U.S. citizens went against everything the United States was founded on, and to this day many Japanese-American’s are still trying to find a way to recover. As a girl of Japanese descent this part of history hits home for