Receive the "Loyalty Questionnaire"
The loyalty questionnaire was created to create a means of assessing the loyalty of those incarcerated in camp. You come to find that this form will determine who in the camp will be drafted to serve in the military, who might be released from camp sooner, and who will be sent away to an even harsher prison camp. How you decide to answer this form, especially question 27 and 28, could change your future forever.
Question #27 asks if you are willing to serve on combat duty wherever ordered. You ask yourself: "Am I willing to die for a country that has stripped away my basic human rights and treated myself and my family like prisoners? Am I willing to go to another country and leave my family in camp?"
Question #28 asks if you would will unqualified allegiance to the United States and forswear any form of allegiance to the Emperor of Japan. This question is both confusing and insulting. If you are a U.S. citizen, renouncing allegiance to the Emperor of Japan feels like a round about way to trick you into saying that you were loyal to Japan in the first place. If you are a Japanese immigrant, you are not allowed to become a U.S. citizen on the basis of racial exclusion laws, so renouncing your ties to Japan would mean that you have no citizenship anywhere.
