Thanks for including this earlier essay in today's newsletter. As always, you are brilliant. I always knew about the Japanese internment camps, even as a child, because a Japanese farm family were sent away from their farm just a few miles from where I live, and my mother was a historian who was outraged and told us kids about it. Locals saved the farm so that the family was able to return, luckier than what happened to many Japanese in nearby Seattle who lost everything.
I’ve heard several stories about the homes or farms of the Japanese internment camp victims being saved by locals who stepped up. Amidst that terrible injustice, there were good people doing the right thing. And for no real gain. America!
Right on, Ramona. Now the big test for the US (for us) is whether we can protect voting rights in the face of a concerted attempt to suppress them. Do you read Heather Cox Richardson? She writes with intelligence and a deep understanding of American history. https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-25-2021?r=3qcr6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy
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Thanks for including this earlier essay in today's newsletter. As always, you are brilliant. I always knew about the Japanese internment camps, even as a child, because a Japanese farm family were sent away from their farm just a few miles from where I live, and my mother was a historian who was outraged and told us kids about it. Locals saved the farm so that the family was able to return, luckier than what happened to many Japanese in nearby Seattle who lost everything.
I’ve heard several stories about the homes or farms of the Japanese internment camp victims being saved by locals who stepped up. Amidst that terrible injustice, there were good people doing the right thing. And for no real gain. America!