Reddit reviews Journey to Topaz

I'm from Oakland and there's a wonderful book we all had to read as 5th graders called "Journey to Topaz." It follows a family of Americans as they're ousted from their homes, shipped off to desolate half-finished, barbed-wire enclosed barracks, then to return home after the war to find their homes and businesses had been sold off.

It's atrocious what the United States did to their own citizens out of ill-founded fear and paranoia. Remember, the most decorated unit in American military history was the 442nd Infantry Regiment - an all Japanese-American unit stationed in the European Front. Most of their relatives were interned in the Rockies while they were off fighting and dying heroically for their country.

I believe how well this type of stuff gets covered is highly variable. For example, I remember reading "Journey to Topaz" in middle-school.