During the war, 120,000 men, women and children were interned by the U.S. government, essentially for looking like the enemy. After the war they were free to go. But where? Many had lost everything. So the challenge was where and how to return home – how to
once again "belong".
As America went to war, thousands at home headed for a worrisome future in the custody of the U.S. government. And that’s where we pick up our series, Vermont Reads, as the U.S. Army was ill prepared to provide transport, food and shelter to 120,000 men, women and children.
attacks on Pearl Harbor meant a world at war for most Americans in 1941. But
for Japanese-Americans, it also meant a world upended, a world that
would never be the same for them or their families.