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- From: billw@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Bill Weisman)
- Subject: Re: 50th Anniversary of Japanese Amer. Internment
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.015749.6108@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- References: <19921109025407IYI4DTN@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU> <BxGMKo.1BC@inews.Intel.COM>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 01:57:49 GMT
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- jreece@sousa.intel.com (John Reece) writes:
- [...]
- >And 1/3 of those interned were not US citizens, but bona fide enemy aliens.
-
- Assuming for the sake of argument that this is true, does it justify what
- was done to the other 2/3?
-
- And what about those Italian and German bona fide enemy aliens? Guess they
- were a little less easy to spot, being white and all.
-
- [...]
- >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.
-
- Do you know what day November 11 is, John? Do you know what it's for?
-
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