June 23, 2018. Shock, fear, and worry were common initial psychological reactions[1] as Japanese Americans were forced to deal with the stress of enforced dislocation and the abandonment of their homes, possessions, and businesses. "Trauma may directly or indirectly affect the children of trauma victims. Internment was presumably a precaution against the actions of any potentially disloyal Japanese near the Pacific. An American soldier guarding a Japanese internment camp at Manzanar, California, in 1943. - "Legacy of Injustice: Exploring the Cross-Generational Impact of the Japanese American Internment", Donna K. Nagata, 1993.

As a result, Japanese Americans living along the West Coast and portions of Arizona were ordered to leave their homes and move to concentration camps in desolate areas of the interior. Added to these concerns was the larger psychological burden of being stripped of their civil rights and the unjust … Japanese-American internment camps taught us what happens to the health of separated families.

Without information about where they were being taken, how they would be treated by the government, or how long they would be gone, uncertainty about their future loomed large.