PBS:Conscience and the Constitution:Compliance



	MIKE MASAOKA Interview Transcript, excerpt, 1988 "But constantly, whenever I'd come up against people, they'd say 'look, what have you people done?' They'd point to the fact that the Irish and all these other groups from Europe had gone off to war and fought for our country. Well, heck, we never had that opportunity, were never asked to, or called upon to do it. And there were several who said you had never proved your loyalty because you never fought and died for your country. And from that came a feeling of mine that later developed more during evacuation that the only real test of loyalty as seen by most Americans that you can't refute was to shed on the battlefields, blood to show that's the same with us of Japanese ancestry as with any other group."