Over the years Jacksonville has grown into the surrounding counties. St. Johns County is a popular choice that is easily accessible from I-95. St Johns County is the first county south of Duval. St. Johns County runs from the ocean on the eastern side to the St Johns river. on the western side. Jacksonville & St Augustine Area counties: Duval County, St Johns County & Clay County.
internment Internment means putting a person in prison or other kind of detention, generally in wartime. During World War II, the American government put Japanese-Americans in internment camps, fearing they might be loyal to Japan. Internment usually doesnât involve a trial, so you're being held because someone thinks you might be dangerous, but thereâs no proof.
Japanese-American Internment. Many Americans worried that citizens of Japanese ancestry would act as spies or saboteurs for the Japanese government. Fear â not evidence â drove the U.S. to place over 127,000 Japanese-Americans in concentration camps for the duration of WWII.Despite the lack of any concrete evidence, Japanese Americans were suspected of remaining loyal to their ancestral land.lmost two-thirds of the interns were Nisei, or Japanese Americans born in the United States. It made no difference that many had never even been to Japan. Even Japanese-American veterans of World War I were forced to leave their homes. Ten camps were finally completed in remote areas of seven western states.