They experienced the invasive medical examinations, the grueling interrogations, and they also Barbed wire fences, and guard towers surrounded the centers.
I imagined it to be on the top of a tall hill, with grey stone walls, and three lines of fencing, and barbed wire. And I imagine that originally, it was a prison for adult men, and that it was converted and renovated to house teenage girls who had committed violent crimes, very
We're good friends. And we helped her when she first started opening too. We created the barbed wire fence systems to keep everything, but it inhibited the natural flow of animals, which helped the plants grow,
It had six guard towers. And this is the barbed wire. I mean, most internment camps or concentration camps look the same.
And the kids that are now in their 80's and 90's were so grateful to be reunited with their families, even behind barbed wire. This is a picture of some Japanese kids playing on the Japanese side of camp.
that's a very iffy way of establishing what's accurate and what's not accurate, what's reliable and what's unreliable. Am I putting up barbed wire fences or hiring some ex-SEALs?
And we were transported 2/3 of the way across the country to the swamps of southeastern Arkansas. I still remember the barbed wire fences that confined me. The tall sentry towers with the machine guns pointed at us.
And it became normal for me to go to school in a black tar paper barrack and begin the school day with the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. I could see the barbed wire fence and the sentry tower right outside my schoolhouse window as I recited the words with liberty and justice for all. Incredible. It's such an incredible thing that you're going to be telling this true life story, a mostly unknown story of America,
But it's that word gaman that made it possible for us to make it through that horrible period behind those barbed wire fences, gaman. It's what kept it possible for us to love each other and to love this country that we were born in.
You will be more patient, at least I am. This is the barbed wire fence, so I did make it out.
And one of my favorite programs is a preschool in a neighborhood in Chicago that was so tough that there was barbed wire around the playground to protect the kids when they were there. And they were all great programs.
And then they lined us up in rows of five and marched us into a place called Birkenau, a planet of evil. The SS locked the electric barbed -wire fences behind us, never to let us out. It was spring, but flowers and grass didn't grow there.
I mean, most internment camps or concentration camps look the same. They have guard towers and barbed wire fences. And Texas Rangers patrol the area outside the fence.
the border just consisted of a roll of barbed wire. When he was walking exactly that barbed wire, and then when nobody was looking, jumped over, threw his rifle back to East Germany, and ran into a waiting car the Western police provided.
with no trial, with no due process, the central pillar of our justice system, and ordered them to be incarcerated in 10 barbed wire prison camps, in some of the most god awful places in this country. The blistering hot desert of Arizona, the sultry swamps of Arkansas, southeastern Arkansas,
He wrote, "I had the impression of drowning and a terrible agony of death itself took possession of me." After this ordeal, he was tossed into a cell, still naked, left to spend the night on a barbed wire mattress, listening to the screams and thuds of other detainees getting similar treatment in this interrogation facility. It's sometimes said that torture doesn't work.
found yourself outside the the Ring Road after 10:00 you you couldn't even get into the city they literally put bar wire around the city we happen to be outside the barbed wire which is also kind of a scary thing when everybody else is inside the barb wire and you're outside the barb wire like why do they need to be inside that bar so what would happen is that when
was impossible and yet that plane landed in louisiana and sat on the tarmac overnight with these weapons protected by a barbed wire fence and a normal security guard it was only the next day when a crewman noticed that there was a red mark on those indicating they were nuclear warheads not conventional warheads he told his boss his dog boss didn't believe him a
We're getting people dirty. We're getting them to sweat and crawl under barbed wire. And so who knows what that number eventually goes to.
And on the other side, you see a 19 year-old soldier-- one of the most famous pictures of the Berlin Wall, which was taken a week after the initial cut-off when the border just consisted of a roll of barbed wire. When he was walking exactly that barbed wire, and then when nobody was looking, jumped over, threw his rifle back to East Germany, and ran into a waiting car
made now the mous were slowly taking over the Country Village by Village by Village until they had essentially taken over the entire country except for the cat menu Valley where the King was the king had essentially barbed wire the entire catmandu the city of catmandu I mean if you found yourself outside the the Ring Road after 10:00 you you couldn't even get into the city they literally put bar wire around the
if the show was gonna happen. But an amazing thing happened and I tell this, this is the last chapter of my book also. Teenagers just decided they're gonna jump over barbed wire. They're gonna get to this place no matter what, and brave the bullets, and there was obviously a lot of military security presence as well. Literally guns and roses because there are so many diverse
But then that lower picture, it shows barbed wire.
One day we were gathered in a corner of the compound where the barbed wire fence segregated our beaten earth with a pastured countryside beyond.
One of the coolest was, he made a barbed wire telephone network that ran between his house and his best friend's house.
The 1% of the world are imprisoned in their gated communities with barbed wire fencing around it, just like those who are in actual penitentiaries are.
Little kids come out and do it. One day, I was sitting at the barbed wire. I like to really mess with people sometimes.
And I had a fire hose. And I was just blasting people as they were trying to go through the barbed wire. And I thought, wow, that woman has an incredible costume on.
But young children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal in normal times became my normality behind those barbed wire fences. It became normal for me to the line up three times a day to eat lousy food in a noisy mess hall.
If I can report to my hometown draft board with my family back home, I will fight for this country, but I will not go as an internee going from behind these barbed wire fences, leaving my family and loved ones behind. And for that courageous, principled stand they were tried for draft evasion, found guilty,
You will be more patient, at least I am. And I turned and ran and I did make it outside the barbed wire fence.
So if a honey bee stings, she has a barbed stinger, and she perishes after she stings.
It was this vast, barren field of gravel still surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers, but nobody inside them.
was built almost overnight in the desert on top of a dead volcano, surrounded by barbed wire fences.
There were quite a few. They were in the beginning, when the Wall was just barbed wire, or a small wall-- people just jumping over, climbing. Later when it got a little more elaborate, it was the big time of the tunnels.
These young men bit the bullet, and women too, they bit the bullet, swallowed their pride and answered both questions as the government wanted them to, and they went from behind these barbed wire fences, putting on the same uniform as that of the sentries that guarded over us, leaving their family and loved ones in imprisonment to fight for this country.
Because I used to be sitting in my penitentiary cell looking through the Plexiglas window past the barbed wire, and I would see that tower.
So they had, obviously, fences there with barbed wire and guards that would shoot them.
This is like my second time. But so I get up to this place where these are, and I see a barbed wire fence. And it's like, oh.
You will be more patient, at least I am. You can take bike trips along the DMZ once a month-- I would love to do that-- in between land mines and barbed wire, just like mom
And you can see here, that house had been bulldozed and you see multiple layers of barbed wire at Burned Bridge.
Jeeps. And they were driving at 100 miles per hour and there was like this sort of the whole city was under siege. And what had happened was college students who wanted to come were prevented from coming by this barbed wire all around the place. And until the day of the show, we didn't know if the show was gonna happen. But an amazing thing happened and I tell this, this is the last chapter of my book also.
The British nabbed them off the boats and threw them into Atlit which is a place surrounded by barbed wire fences.
But the place offered a grim welcome to the exhausted remnant of the "Final Solution" who could barely see past those barbed wire fences,
Anyway, went in. By April 1, it was completely surrounded by barbed wire.
And at the risk of indulging in a little bit more history, this is the story of barbed wire and what it
In the late 19th century, some guys invented a very cheap way of keeping cows and crops separate from one another, which was barbed wire.
It was the way our bodies pulled through the window slits and into the storm pounding outside, all across the compound. If only we could see just pass the triple fenced perimeter, over and beyond the coils of barbed wire, past the guard's tower, past the steep road that plunge downhill to the tall iron gate at the bottom.
And needle felting's a technique where you take a loose wool roving, and you basically stab it again and again with a specialized barbed needle.
The idea is to put it all together and eventually create a seamlessly managed reserve, after you've taken down, frankly, thousands of miles of barbed wire fence.