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- Sydney Lewis
- Username: slewis
- Location: Rochester, Massachusetts
- Joined PRX: Sep 06, 2003
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- "Japanese American World War II Draft Resisters"
- Summary: After being relocated from their west coast homes on suspicion of being disloyal Americans, some Japanese Americans stood up to the hipocracy when they were drafted from the internment camps.
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Review of JA Draft Resisters
Sydney Lewis
Posted on May 25, 2004 at 12:21 PM
Imagine being relocated to an internment camp based on your race, and then drafted to fight for the country that incarcerated you behind the internment camp’s barbed wire fence. Then imagine saying no. This timely feature on Japanese American resisters gives us a surface feeling for the atmosphere of the time, and certainly draws one’s mind to our current preemptive anti-terrorist detention techniques. Clean production, good reporting.