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As a lighter take about
this little anecdote poem.

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It's called "Internment Camp
Psychology, circa 1945,"

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and it's about the
psychological test a nisei,

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a second-generation
Japanese-American

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took after he got out of the
camps, and how he answered.

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"Internment Camp Psychology."

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Just after his release Mas
took a psychological test.

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Three questions he never forgot.

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Do you think people
are out to get you?

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Do you feel you
are being followed?

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When you see a crowd of
strangers walking towards you,

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do you try to avoid them?

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To all three he answered yes,
and knew he sounded insane.

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