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Submitted by Barbara Hoshiko (United States), Jan 11, 2005 at 10:10

I agree it should be actions that we in USA hold people accountable for. Why then are so many on this website saying it was a good thing to intern and confiscate property of continental US people of Japanese origin just because of their country of origin? They had done nothing subversive!

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