Beyond Barbed Wire trailer
(Note: there are portions where I cannot understand the words and I'll leave those with a ?)
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“It's not a Japanese-American story. It's not a Japanese story. It's an American story."
“We never thought in terms of being a segregated unit. We always felt that we could prove we were truly American.”
This is a scene of the persons of Japanese ancestry being removed from the West Coast. There is a woman talking, and I can't understand the beginning of her sentence, which then leads into something like “each generation beginning to comprehend what they went through. I don't know if I could have been as tough.”
“The members of our families were in Manzanar internment camp guarded by my men while I'm over in Europe fighting the war.”
“We had lost tremendous casualties after that first day and (?; some name) is ordering us to commit in daylight across that open field which is pure suicide.”
“So many of us died; we lost so many friends. Not afraid of death, but to me it was (?) and they say 'you're the only guys can take it.'”
“Who were these men that died so bravely? What caused them to fight so furiously? Were they cannon fodder because they were of Japanese descent, or were they simply the best men for the job?”
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