Would do the same again

Loyalty questionnaire Fair Play Committee Speaking out in camp Wanting to take a stand Ostracized by the camp newspapers On trial for draft evasion Draft resisters sent to jail Fair Play Committee charged with conspiracy Prison Meeting other Americans in jail Would do the same again Arrested in camp for trying to leave Becoming involved with the NCRR and redress Apologies from the JACL Different feelings from veterans about the draft resisters “No more shikataganai”

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I never felt that we did anything wrong. That if we had to do it again, probably would have done the same thing. ‘Cause, I don’t know why but I felt that injustice that the government perpetrating on us was so great. That uh, I just couldn’t reconcile the fact they would put us in there and then expect us to be put into, respond to the army just like all the people on the outside. That didn’t make sense.

Date: May 9, 2006
Location: California, US
Interviewer: Lisa Itagaki
Contributed by: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

civil rights draft resisters incarceration resistance World War II