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Article: Camp Revival: Two new productions explore the still-controversial topic of Japanese American internment.(Manzanar, Part z)
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- Los Angeles Magazine
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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WHEN KIDS PLAY WAR, everybody can be a hero and no one stays dead for long. There are no such things as trench mouth or friendly fire. While we were growing up, our view of the Japanese American internment was just as fuzzy We knew our parents and grandparents had been forced from their homes during World War II, but where they went was a mystery. If the junior Rambos were exposed to too many movies and nostalgic chats around the dinner table, we had the opposite problem. Our relatives said little, our schoolbooks less. Nothing was on TV. Like most Americans, we mistook the meaning of silence. Could things have been that bad--or that important?
Today we know ...