About a week before I turned eleven years old, my grandpa (mother's father) passed away. Dealing with this experience as expanded the boundaries of my knowledge of history quite broadly, because as the years passed, I coped with my papa's death by looking into his past and learning about my family history. By discovering and studying my family history, my general understanding of history has been significantly broadened.
My mother's family is of Japanese descent, and my grandpa and his family were held in Japanese internment camps during the Second World War. When my grandpa passed away, I was only 10, and in elementary school we had barely brushed over the details of World War Two- other than the facts that Franklin D. Roosevelt was good, Adolf Hitler was bad, and America was a winner in the conflict. I knew very little of what had happened to the Japanese people that were in America.
As my history classes matured along with me and more detail was included in the lessons, I became increasingly interested in what my grandpa and his family went through. His father was separated from him and brought to another camp, and my grandpa was taken from California, where he was born, to Texas, to an internment camp, where his mother …show more content…
Even though many people nowadays see Executive Order 9066 as unnecessary and unreasonable, the internment camps provided safety, food, work, and shelter for the Japanese
My mother's family is of Japanese descent, and my grandpa and his family were held in Japanese internment camps during the Second World War. When my grandpa passed away, I was only 10, and in elementary school we had barely brushed over the details of World War Two- other than the facts that Franklin D. Roosevelt was good, Adolf Hitler was bad, and America was a winner in the conflict. I knew very little of what had happened to the Japanese people that were in America.
As my history classes matured along with me and more detail was included in the lessons, I became increasingly interested in what my grandpa and his family went through. His father was separated from him and brought to another camp, and my grandpa was taken from California, where he was born, to Texas, to an internment camp, where his mother …show more content…
Even though many people nowadays see Executive Order 9066 as unnecessary and unreasonable, the internment camps provided safety, food, work, and shelter for the Japanese