At the bottom of Lake Freedom is a camp called Our Great ShameBorn of fear and ignorance, intolerance is its name.Out of sight means out of mind, yet the waters doth recedeLooking away won’t cleanse the stain or alleviate the needTo face the folly of days gone by, to learn from history.Round up the “Others” tomorrow, next year could be you or me.Over one hundred thousand interned sans charges of any crimeNo trial, no judge, no jury, yet sentenced to do hard timeGuilty of ancestry inconveniently JapaneseLocked away from society for being one of these.“It couldn’t happen here and now, we’ve come such a long way,”I shouted to my neighbor, as they were carrying him away.At the bottom of Lake Freedom is a camp called Our Great ShameBorn of fear and ignorance, intolerance is its name.
At the bottom of Lake Freedom is a camp called Our Great ShameBorn of fear and ignorance, intolerance is its name.Out of sight means out of mind, yet the waters doth recedeLooking away won’t cleanse the stain or alleviate the needTo face the folly of days gone by, to learn from history.Round up the “Others” tomorrow, next year could be you or me.Over one hundred thousand interned sans charges of any crimeNo trial, no judge, no jury, yet sentenced to do hard timeGuilty of ancestry inconveniently JapaneseLocked away from society for being one of these.“It couldn’t happen here and now, we’ve come such a long way,”I shouted to my neighbor, as they were carrying him away.At the bottom of Lake Freedom is a camp called Our Great ShameBorn of fear and ignorance, intolerance is its name.