"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity" - General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Hate is a word that is often over used, but never truly meant. Hate can be an emotion or an action, a statement or even a thought, but hatred comes around every once in a while, and when it does, it destroys and harms everything/everyone around it. Hate is an intense, incomparable dislike of something or someone. "Today we may say aloud before an awe-struck world: Hate as we may, we are still masters of our fate. We are still captain of our souls." - Winston Churchill
Many groups of people were discriminated against and suffered terribly throughout the war, most notably of course were the Jews. But another group that faced discrimination were the Japanese, and this seems to be forgotten in American history books. Everybody knows that the Jewish people suffered unimaginable hardships throughout the war, and easily suffered the most, but what people don't know, is that the Japanese were sent to American based interment camps where many of the same torments that the Jews went through, the Japanese also went through.
Even today the United States is full of discrimination and hatred, and many groups of people feel the pain of racism and discrimination. The groups that feel these burdens heavily are brown skinned people who under go racist acts every day, and get paid less than a white person in the same job, and gays/lesbians who feel the wrath of close minded America and religious believers daily.
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