the memories flow when yoshio nakamura sees pictures of fellow americans at the japanese american museumes. >> why are you willing to serve a country that as you say took away your rights? >> well i was willing to serve the united states in government. i had a great faith that the incarceration of japanese americans was a big mistake. >> 1942, 120,000 american citizens of japanese dis disdest were forced to abandon homes and sent to internments. june aochi berk was ten when she went from american born citizen to prisoner. >> we couldn't leave because of the bashe barbed wires around ud the military looking down at us. >> but volunteered to go to war. linda gombos father went to war. >> e-felt question trayed almost by a country he had lived in. >> reporter: what do you want americans to remember about them? >> we all are here for american dream. and they gave their lives for that. they fought for peace and freedom. and we have to honor that. >> reporter: men like private first class sadao munemori immediate of freedom recipient who threw himself on a grenade to save his friends. one of m

i mean, i look at the paperwork that you know calls people like yoshio an alien enemy, and and i wonder if you know in the past. years as you start to see some of those sentiments coming back. of otherness, do you think that message somehow? this is more important than ever. yes, absolutely. i wanted to make this film for a long time as i came to know japanese-american communities and what it means to live with this history but in the past few years, you know the rise and anti-asian hate crimes be you know, the thing of issues of immigration and xenophobia as well as you know, the disrespect of the elderly and sure of our history that has really come to the fore in our understanding of the united states. all of these issues are being engaged in this film. and i hope this film contributes to the need to understand our history. they need to claim our history, even if it involves these kinds of power dynamics and silencing and imprisonment. well, i do. hope folks get to see it 80 years later will premiere at the los angeles asian pacific? filmfest next week and it'll come to the bay area i