Oregon at War: How WWII Changed Oregon (Full Documentary) | Oregon Experience 

Love you all. Our generation ls war wasn’t like this but I felt the “waiting if the next ones for you” statement, I was a combat medic starting 1998 and retired in 2019 so 21 years and numerous deployments, the number of IEDs and walking streets, kicking in doors overseas always waiting for the end gets old. I always loved the quote “to be an effective soldier you have to first realize you already dead” pretty much sums it up❤ ty you all for what you have done

My family from Riley Station, Birmingham ,Alabama. Went to Portland, Oregon to built ships.My uncle was stationed in the army, came home told his grandmother he was going back and he left with his stuff in a Kroger bag.I was in the park service at Mt.St.Helens May 18,1980.

the greatest generation, thanks for reminding us.

Outstanding, thankyou

I remember very clearly early in the 1970's when I was very young they finding an unexploded bomb in the forest nearby to Rogue Community College. We live just one mile from there. We're still on the same property. My grandpa served on Okinawa mostly after training.

around 50 minutes in -- the sandwich story -- I can almost taste it myself.

Baker( City ) was like a second hometown as a kid growing up in the 60's. Seems like a time warp going from the old timers, American Japanese Mexicans, Natives whatever the best people I have been blessed to have known. Depression and World War most had been through enough and just wanted to get along. All the fussin and fighten going on today disrespectful and ungrateful to the price they payed. Arguing over pronouns and letters of the alphabet and colors of skin.. Lord have mercy.

Pickled military horses?

Whenever I come across the stories of the Japanese Americans who were sent to camps during WWII whether it be in a book or film or especially in a documentary I can’t help but feel shame. Shame because they were/are Americans actual American citizens. I wasn’t alive back then, in fact my family hadn’t moved to the USA until the 1970’s but I am an American citizen, I was born a citizen, my father was in the military and stationed in England where he met and subsequently married my mum. Just over a year later I was born, in England and because my father was American so am I. So even though I nor any member of my family had anything to do with the forcible removal of Japanese Americans from their homes I as an American still have feelings of guilt over what happened to those people. Some of them had thriving businesses that they didn’t get back and others owned land in Hawaii that was never returned to them yet today large hotels and even larger condominium buildings stand on that land. They saw none of the profit from the sale of their land to the developers that built those large buildings. I don’t care that they looked different they were/are American citizens most of whom were born in America. They didn’t round up any of the people of German descent from all over the upper Midwest, quite a few of whom spoke fluent German when at home. Maybe that’s because there were millions of them or not. I have heard in other shows about the internment that it was also done to protect them from ignorant people that might do them harm just because of their race. I think it was at least partially done so that there was no conflict between the propaganda being produced by the government and what people would see if their neighbours were Japanese-Americans. Some of the people sent to camps were 2nd, 3rd, even 4th or 5th generation Americans. It was a travesty and I believe it was unconstitutional to force Americans out of their homes and to leave their businesses and property behind never to be returned to them and put them in camps for months and years. I read the constitution again and I still don’t see where it states the president or congress has the authority to do that to American citizens for any reason including but not limited to war and/or their safety.

POW talking about the POW camp experience very much like Viktor Frankl tells the concentration camp experience in Auchwitz. All they could think about was food.

My dad was a Tank commander from Oregon in WW11.

What crazy politicians have caused throughout history. Unimaginable horrifying suffering for ordinary people.

It's hard to hear the experience of japanese american during and after the war.

The government never did the same thing to people of German or Italian ancestry on the East coast,,,hmm, I wonder why-

At some point I hope humans learn to never start another war, like the lady in the video says people are mostly the same everywhere. After all we call ourselves the human race.

When an entire society is geared up for Victory for TRUE War, instead of one of politics-

It was not war war two