I had gotten into history after watching Band of Brothers in my grade ten history class, but I was more interested in the idea of people fighting for a country that turned their backs on them - a clear example of which was the Japanese American and Canadian internment camps. I started this collection sometime in tenth grade, with my first book that I collected being Honor Before Glory by Scott McGaugh. It is the main theme in all of these stories: struggling with questions of loyalty and the systemic racism and discrimination that is faced as a result.Įven then, the answer to the question of loyalty has always been the same even though others chose not to acknowledge it in order to promote their hate-filled view of the Japanese: all these people are loyal to the country of which they are citizens - the United States of America - and that they belong and take pride in calling themselves American, just as much as every other person. However, some books focus on life in America during and after the war, but nonetheless, they all follow the stories of a group that was racially persecuted and discriminated against in a country they called home. This collection focuses on the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a regiment formed during WWII made up entirely of Japanese Americans.
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