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Justice and Judgment
There's a reason why people say hindsight is 20/20. Making a good decision—having the judgment and perspective to do so—is a lot harder than hindsight makes it appear. Farewell to Manzanar doesn't let anyone off the hook when it comes to the fundamentally unjust act of interning Japanese-American people, but it does let us understand how hard it was to judge what was just during wartime—even from the perspective of the internees.
The U.S. government was justified in locking up Japanese-American people because it was wartime.
It wasn't just to put all Japanese-Americans along the West Coast into camps and the government should have known better.
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