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Japanese American Misconducts Analysis

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Bearing America’s Misconduct
In “Remarks on Signing the Bill Providing Restitution for the Wartime Internment of Japanese American Civilians” by Ronald Reagan and “An Apology” by Kevin Gover, both passages give argument on how the existing government bears responsibility for its historical misconducts. First in the speech by President Ronald Reagan, he addresses how the American government is to this day still held accountable for their past actions towards people from Japanese ancestry living in the United States when the government forcibly removed them from their homes, placed them in makeshift internment camps without trial or a reasonable justification. Then in the second speech by, Assistant of Indian Affairs Department of the Interior, Kevin Gover, the speaker …show more content…

In the second paragraph of Ronald Reagan’s, the speaker states that we must recognize the internment of Japanese Americans was more than a mistake. The speaker means that the government tries to justify the internment by expressing that everything that happened during the war including the misconducts were ways that American was “struggling for survival”. Also in paragraph two, Reagan says “ The 442nd Regimental Combat Team, made up entirely of Japanese Americans, served with immense distinction to defend this nation, their nation, Yet back at home, the soldiers’ families were being denied the very freedom for which so many soldiers themselves were laying down their lives.” Then in paragraph four, the speaker says, “The legislation that I am about to sign provides for a restitution payment to each of the 60,000 surviving Japanese Americans…who were relocation or retained. Yet no payment can make up for those lost

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