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July 2008
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Do you have a mentor? Someone who inspires you to "go for it" and have no fear? Bill Hosokawa, a Seattle native and a longtime editor at the Denver Post was just such a person. The 92 year old Hosokawa died November 9, 2007 after coaching dozens of reporters over the years, even though a University of Washignton professor told him no American newspaper would ever hire him because of his Japanese ancestry. He not only proved him wrong, Hosokawa went on to author ten books, many describing the U.S. government's unconstitutional lock-up of 120,000 Japanese Americans in camps during World War II. Hosokawa, his wife and young son were interned at Heart Mountain Wyoming. His daughter, Susan Boatright, says he wrote about the internment so that no other group of people would ever be treated that way again. He leaves this world a little better for following his journalism dream, speaking up for justice and being a beacon for journalists coming up behind him. (See obituary from KING 5 News.) 1 Comments |
Once again the spin doctors ignore that collected information on members of the Japanese secret police (The Kempitai) who were arrested by the FBI from 1941 to 1942 while they spied on US Military activities from Bremerton Washington to San Diego California.
Was the internment wrong? Another fact forgotten was the 17 Japanese Americans lynched in Arkansas, Alabama and Tennessee after Pearl Harbor. Internment may have been "wrong" but I bet it saved many from the outright anger and rage of a blindly outraged nation.
Will you make the same excuses someday when bombs start going off in malls or IED's start exploding on highways across our country? Given our poor borders, it's only a matter of time.