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- From: jreece@sousa.intel.com (John Reece)
- Newsgroups: ca.general,soc.culture.japan
- Subject: Re: 50th Anniversary of Japanese Amer. Internment
- Message-ID: <BxGMKo.1BC@inews.Intel.COM>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 17:43:34 GMT
- References: <19921109025407IYI4DTN@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>
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- In article <19921109025407IYI4DTN@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>, IYI4DTN@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (Gann Matsuda) writes:
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- > DURING WORLD WAR II, more than 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry
- > were rounded-up and imprisoned in American concentration camps. No
- > charges were ever filed. No trials were held...
-
- We know the story. It's virtually the only WWII episode
- contemporary news media are interested in playing up....
-
- And 1/3 of those interned were not US citizens, but bona fide
- enemy aliens.
-
- > Some fifty years later, UCLA has joined the Japanese American community
- > in Los Angeles and across the nation in commemorating the fiftieth
- > anniversary of this tragic chapter in American History. We hope you
- > will join us for the concluding events of this important year of
- > activities..
-
- My father commanded a unit of amphibious tractors/troop carriers at
- Saipan, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, etc... Funny how local authorities aren't
- falling all over themselves to play up his sacrifices, or those of
- the other 11 million who served in the US armed forces.
-
-
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- John Reece "This lifeboat is full"
- Not an Intel spokesman
-