Today marks the point in time when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that put 120,000 Japanese into internment camps. Over two-thirds were American citizens.Check out her post and its links. As I commented, we need to remember these sad chapters of our history. Denial enables us to do it again.
--the BB
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Thanks for the link Paul. This is a story that has always saddened me in a very strong way. I visited a museum of sorts in Arizona, a place where the Japanese Americans were held on a reservation.
The meeting of the disenfranchised.
We never learn as humans, we never learn.
Which brings to mind the Matthew 5:31 Scripture from the post above...
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