From THE WAR, Episode 2:

NARRATOR: Armed guards and barbed wire insured that no one got out. Several who tried were shot.



SUSUMU SATOW: To walk into a, a double-security fence with guard tower looking down with guns; its not a good feeling. You know, you wonder, Gee, how, how could this be happening? But its happening. And so, you kind of accept that, I guess.



NARRATOR: Wherever they were sent, however they were made to live, the internees acted like the Americans they were.



SUSUMU SATOW: You, of course, meet new people and you play cards and play baseball. We, first thing we did was to form a baseball league. We had games almost every night.



ASAKO TOKUNO: It was democracy on a small scale in action. And we made it work, you know, because everybody cooperated and we knew we were going to be living together for who knows how long.



NARRATOR: LIFE magazine claimed the evacuees had been cheerful about giving up their homes and livelihoods. After all, it said, all they forfeit is their freedom.

