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1、原文标题：DC Locales Touch on Japanese-American Ties, Tria.内容简介：在纪念园的墙壁上记载着一段可耻的历史，日裔美国人曾被关押拘留，受尽屈辱HintsWorld War TwoCherry TsutsumidaArizonaJapMemorialPS ：Japanese-American 在文中做名词表示日裔美国人的时候没有连字符，作形容词的时候有连字符哦One is the proud account of the exploits of Japanese Americans who fought for the United States i
2、n World War Two.The other tells a shameful story.Ten names appear on a wall. These were the locations of internment camps - which the most strident of critics call the American equivalent of concentration camps.120,000 Japanese Americans - American citizens all - were confined in them during the sam
3、e war.The memorial foundations executive director Cherry Tsutsumida, a longtime Federal health worker, was among the little children hustled with their families into such an internment camp in the Arizona desert.Even though my father was just a farmer, they assumed that he had all the characteristic
4、s of those sneaky Japs in Japan, she says. And as a result, those of us who were his children carried the cape of being so-called disloyal Americans, whatever that meant. Some of our Chinese friends also began to wear little tags that said, We are not a Jap, which again reinforced our isolation and
5、our feeling of being guilty of something that we did not understand.In an unprecedented gesture, the U.S. Congress voted in 1988 to issue an apology and pay $20,000 in reparations to each relocation camp internee still alive. Supporters of the Japanese-American Memorial say it serves as a reminder t
6、o a free nation to never again permit the denial of individual rights of law-abiding citizens.一个故事自豪地记述了二战时期日裔美军为保卫美国而战的英勇事迹。另一个则讲述了一段可耻的历史。墙上刻着十个名字，它们曾是拘留营的所在地最尖锐的评论家们称这些拘留营等同于美国版的集中营。二战时期，十二万日裔美国人（均为美国公民）被关押在这些拘留营里。纪念基金会的行政主管雪丽堤田从事了多年的联邦卫生工作。小时候，她和众多孩子一样，和家人一起被赶到位于亚利桑那沙漠的此类拘留营里。“尽管家父仅为一介农夫，他们仍认为他具备日本那些卑鄙鬼子的全部特征，”她说道，“因此，作为他的孩子，我们要背负所谓的不忠实的美国人的污名，不管这意味着什么。我们的一些中国朋友也开始佩戴写着我们不是小日本的小标牌。这使我们感到更加孤立，也使我们对无法理解的事情感到内疚。”美国国会于1988年投票通过法案，以前所未有的姿态向日裔美国人道歉，并给曾经被关在拘留营中且仍在世的日裔美国人每人两万美元的补偿。日裔美籍国民纪念园的支持者称，这个纪念园提醒着这个自由的国度不要再次剥夺守法公民的个人权利。2用心 爱心 专心
