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To: TEXICAN II
here's a good photo of your "hostile foreign agents"...

A soldier and his mother at a strawberry field. The soldier, age 23, volunteered July 10, 1941, and is stationed at Camp Leonard Wood, Missouri. He was furloughed to help his mother and family prepare for their incarceration. He is the youngest of six children, two of them volunteers in the U.S. Army. The mother, age 53, came from Japan 37 years ago. Her husband died 21 years ago, leaving her to raise six children. She worked in a strawberry basket factory until last year when her children leased three acres of strawberries so she wouldn't have to work for somebody else. The family is Buddhist. This is her youngest son. Her second son is in the army stationed at Ft. Bliss. 453 families are to be incarcerated from this area. Photographer: Lange, Dorothea Florin, California. 5/11/42

114 posted on 02/20/2002 12:54:30 PM PST by bonesmccoy
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To: bonesmccoy
You seem to imply we must judge actions of our government & the co-operative citizens of 1940-circa?, using the strange filter of today's very odd 'politically correct' standards. You seek to lecture me ( in your first reply to me ) on racism-& I view such charges as the first refuge of scoundrels & fools. I can only view what was done as a reaction to military attacks & a WAR of survival. I am sure that many harmless people were treated harshly, & as I have previously agreed, many of these people showed quite normal human traits & rose far above their predicament. Most simply got on with their lives & don't cry for public sympathy. Endless complaints only hurt the cause-as I said, I would be happy to see a complete & CORRECT accounting of property loss & allowance for reperations already paid vs. any remaining balance in inflation adjusted dollars...

However, nothing you can tell me will make me think I should judge the incarcerations as without merit.

I do grow weary of trying to be polite in the face of what I see as an absence of logic on your part. Maybe you might spend some of your great time & energy on the survivors of OUR military-say those from the South Pacific, WWII who are still psychologically harmed by what the Japanese military did?

116 posted on 02/20/2002 1:45:56 PM PST by TEXICAN II
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