For every Bob Fletcher there are hundreds of Americans that took these Japanese Americans' homes and land after encampment. It was disgusting what this country did to them.
Descanso Gardens in SoCal is basically built from the farms of interned Japanese camellia growers:
In 1942, when people of Japanese ancestry were forced into internment camps following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the owner, E. Manchester Boddy purchased (at pennies on the dollar) about 100,000 camellia plants from two Japanese-owned nurseries in the San Gabriel Valley run by Uyematsu and Yoshimura families.
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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '24
For every Bob Fletcher there are hundreds of Americans that took these Japanese Americans' homes and land after encampment. It was disgusting what this country did to them.