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Strawberry Festival


            About 60 years ago, a terrible crime was commit on people who where thought to be likely be involved in spying because of their origin from Japan. Just because they looked different and had a different heritage, they were cast away as security threats. Their neighbors, who had known them for some time, now looked upon them as aliens. They had been together in celebration just one year ago in the strawberry festival of 1941. Since the strawberry festival depended on the Japanese families to grow most of the berries it was called off. Up until then, berries where the center of attention in bellevue. They were in stamps and all around town. A great tradition was lost due to the failure to protect the Japanese families rights in our on constitution that we think is fair today. In the months following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, many expected an immediate attack against the West Coast. Fear gripped the country and a wave of hysterical antipathy against the Japanese engulfed the Pacific Coast. The FBI began rounding up any and all "suspicious" Japanese for internment. None was ever charged with any crime. Almost all were simply Japanese community leaders, Buddhist or Shinto priests, newspaper editors, language or Judo instructors, or labor organizers. The Japanese community leadership was liquidated in one quick operation. All the people who grew the strawberries were also gone. Today most people who move to Bellevue or even people who have live here all their lives don't know about the festival and the internment camps the Japanese were sent to. The U.S. government told Americans that our detention centers had nothing in common with the horrible concentration camps established by the enemy in Europe. The Army public relations continually referred to the centers as "resettlement camps" and "havens of refuge." The State Department denied that the centers were concentration camps, "but were areas where communities are being established in which the Japanese may organize their social and economic life in safety and security under the protection of the central authorities of the United States.


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