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The saddest art about the whole experience was when they were finally released. They were so happy that they were allowed to return home, until the actually got there. They arrived to betrayal and hate.

They returned to burnt down homes, or broken windows and doors. They were missing their possessions that they had to leave behind. And they returned to graffiti painted on the walls “Japs ain’t welcome anymore�.

Many of the farmers had to sell their land for dirt cheap, and few were able to find friends noble enough to hold it for them. Some had to start over from the very beginning, while others had their land stolen by the people they trusted to hold it for them, their so called “friends�.

The worst part of it all was the fact that they government wasn’t even going to send them to the camps, they were encouraged by the other farmers who ended up buying our land cheap. How would you feel if you were a farmer and one of your fellow farmers who you thought you knew was betraying you, telling the government to “send those japs away�?

When they finally returned, the government gave each family money which they called “Reparation Money�. $20,000 to each family for stealing four years of their life. Doesn’t sound fair does it? Well most of the Japanese Americans either didn’t spend it or ripped up the check because they were so ashamed of the government.