In looking at the April 30 front-page story with the headline “Local couple tell of internment camp indignity,” I am in a bit of a quandary. I have read that those camps were set up during World War II for the protection of Japanese-Americans from locals and to prevent spying. I realize that it was probably not the right thing to do; it was degrading and uncomfortable, but it was safe. How does it compare to the camps where the Japanese put American civilians? Read the history of the Philippines during the war. I will apologize to the American Japanese, even though I was in grade school at the time, but when will Japan apologize to us for the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Clint McCourtney
Vancouver
