December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by MorganGrayson

I think it was the 442nd...but my favorite story regarding that was during the Watergate trials, when the bigot muttered something about "the Jap" into a live mike. The "Jap" in question was Senator Daniel Inouye (sp) who lost his arm in the war and was a gen-u-ine, bon-a-fied War Hero. The Senator got to do some marvelous interviews, including one where he demonstrated how to light a match from a matchbook with one hand. I worked on that until I could do it. (It's a lost skill, I haven't done it since I was a kid, but it was one of my first "walk a mile in somebody else's mocassins" experiences, and for that, I will always be grateful.)

There are now, and have always been, people working against the interests of America while in America. That doesn't excuse the horror of "interning" Americans en masse.

Anthony...admittedly, you won't be mistaken for an Irishman, but you don't look remotely Japanese. You do, however, look way too big to fuck with. That's an aspect of "bigotry" that's always fascinated me. Some people are so damned convinced of their own superiority that reality testing flies out the window...like the 5'7", 140 pound white boy that passes words at a black man who's three times his size. How suicidal do you have to be.....

Morgan.

Would it surprise you growing up I lost a girlfriend because her father was in Vietnam?

Racism is real.

Btw, I believe it wasn't Jap, it was Gook to Senator Inoue. I remember it like yesterday, my dad exploded and told all of us kids.

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Morgan.

Would it surprise you growing up I lost a girlfriend because her father was in Vietnam?

Racism is real.

Btw, I believe it wasn't Jap, it was Gook to Senator Inoue. I remember it like yesterday, my dad exploded and told all of us kids.

Ahhh...you may be right at that, Anthony. I remember an explosion, too...from my career Army father who couldn't believe that a war hero would be slandered like that.

*sigh*
I wish I could say it surprised me about losing the girlfriend, but sadly, things like that don't surprise me anymore. They used to. Once upon a time, I wanted to believe people weren't like that. Once upon a time I even believed that people had more of a handle on who the players were in any given war, too.