Furthermore, the second question asked was if they would forswear any foreign allegiance and swear full allegiance to the United States of America. This process was used to try to find the so called spies. If one was unwilling to take this oath, they were sent to the camp located at Tula Lake, Furthermore, when they arrived at these camps multiple families were squeezed into one barrack and were treated very harshly. Each room had very little insulation, except for a wooden stove, and poor ventilation for the heat. Because of the close quarters, many diseases like chickenpox were spreading throughout the camp. The multiple families had to share common areas for washing, laundry and eating. “As four or five families with their sparse collections …show more content…
Most were not able to celebrate their sacred traditions. Internment camps located in the desert had to deal with high temperatures. Surrounding these camps were barbed wire which included armed gun towers at the perimeters. These gun towers would shoot anybody who tried to escape. “I remember the soldiers marching us to the Army tank and I looked at their rifles and I was just terrified because I could see this long knife at the end ... I thought I was imagining it as an adult much later ... I thought it couldn’t have been bayonets because we were just little kids.’ from ‘Children of the Camps”. Memories such as this scarred children in the camp. Having a gun pointed at you everyday, afraid that if you take a wrong step they might shoot you. Although they had such poor living conditions, they still had a functioning community. “Each camp had its own hospital, police department, and fire department...Each camp had its own newspaper...Each camp also had dry goods stores.” Having a job was not required, but most adults still worked to pass the time. They did not earn as much as their regular jobs outside the camp, but it was something. Then, children responsibility was going to