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Question: How long did your family spend in an internment camp? Answer: We were sent from Florin, California, to a temporary facility at the Fresno County fairgrounds for 6 months beginning in May of 1942. From there our family along with others from California were sent to Jerome, [Arkansas]. We were never at Topaz. The US government set up 10 internment camps in various locations in the United States. These camps were located in desolate, unpopulated places throughout the continental states. The government did not want the people of the United States to know much about the internment of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. What was the interviewee’s purpose? to spread awareness of injustice to deflect from the truth to make the interviewer feel guilty to critique the truth

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The correct answer is: to spread awareness of injustice

The interviewee is giving an honest and truthful account of the events that took place. He is stating facts about what him and his family experienced and the injustice of what occurred. He is not critiquing the truth or deflecting from the truth and he is definitely not trying to make the interviewer feel guilty. He is simply telling his truth which is important in spreading awareness of the injustice that the American Japanese were subjected to during World War 2.