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Camp harmony is an inappropriate name for the Japanese internment camps,because it was not a place of Harmony,people were stripped of their rights because they were a Japanese decedent,said in the you tube video above.Also on pg.318 it states,¨They had committed no crime,but the United States had gone to war with Japan.¨So just because they had the same ethnicity as the country America went to war with the US locked them away in a desert surrounded by bob wire fences like prisoners.In the story ¨Camp Harmony¨, by Monica Stone,it tells how the Japanese decedents living in the US were taken from their homes to be put in a prison like vicinity for about three years.It is an inappropriate name because nothing about the camp was fun or peaceful

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