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In article <BxGMKo.1BC@inews.Intel.COM> jreece@sousa.intel.com writes:
>In article <19921109025407IYI4DTN@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>, IYI4DTN@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (Gann Matsuda) writes:

>> 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.

Many of those were aliens because they had no choice; they were not allowed
to become citizens, due to the laws of the time.

>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.

Mr. Reece, I commend your father for his service to our country. Please try to
bear in mind exactly WHY he was called into service; it is because we have
certain freedoms and values that we wish to defend. These values are to apply
to all of us equally, if they are to have meaning. Our pledge of allegience
ends "with liberty and justice for all" and while we may fail to acheive all
we would hope in the attainment of this goal, we must never fail to pursue
it. If we do so, and if we fail to protect the rights of some Americans, the
words ring rather hollow. 

BTW, my uncle (great uncle, actually) also fought in the Phillipines, Burma,
India, and what was then French Indo-China with the OSS. He was not considered
a citizen of the US when he was born, though he was born in the US: he is a 
Cherokee.

Mike
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