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According to a National Park Service report on the camps, the eighty-five draft resisters included seven leaders of the Fair Play Committee, an organization that urged defiance of internment and the draft. All were convicted for conspiring to violate the Selective Service Act and for counseling others to evade the draft. Ultimately, 700 men at Heart Mountain reported for military physicals. About half were inducted. Fifty-two of these men were wounded in fighting, and eleven died. For more information, click here
to connect to the National Park Service report, "Confinement and Ethnicity:
An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites," published
in July 2000. |