You know who I mean. The guy who thinks internment camps were a good idea. But you know what they say…
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana-1905
My column, Don’t repeat the Manzanar mistake, appeared in the Nevada Appeal on Christmas Day, 2007. I believe it speaks for itself.
You should know that Manzanar is one of ten so-called “War Relocation Centers” to which over 100,000 West Coast Japanese Americans were sent after being given 48 hours to leave their homes, forcing them to sell or abandon belongings and property. Although it was called a “War Relocation Center,” military police armed with sub-machine guns in the eight guard towers, the searchlights and barbed wire told a different story. Manzanar was a prison camp.
Lorie Smith Schaefer 
From your title to your Appeal column to the photographs to your closing statement, this post is powerful, is needed. I say, “amen, amen, and hurray Lorie!
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Thank you Janet. He-who-shall-not-be-named is just so frightening. And so very wrong.
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Very nice, very powerful. It was shameful enough that we had orange-haired monsters in 1942; to still have them in 2015, and people are even listening to him, is mind-boggling…
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Why do we humans keep having to learn the same lessons over and over? That is some special kind of stupid.
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Quite so. And too bad being that stupid is some kind of habit—the world over, one way or another.
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Where is the wisdom? Where is the compassion?
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