Racists try to thwart local Japanese American Memorial

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Tuesday June 14, 2005 · 2:05 PM PDT

2005/06/14 · 14:05

Fellow Kossacks:

I'm posting an important email from Clarence Moriwaki, Chair of the Bainbridge Island (WA) Japanese American Memorial Committee:

The time for public comments end the day after tomorrow, Wednesday June 15, to the National Parks Service on the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Memorial.

The internment apologists have organized a nation-wide email campaign against us, and the National Parks Service has informed me that they are "bombarded" with emails saying "no tax dollars" with the typical messages, sometimes racist, of justifying the mass exclusion and other vile nonsense.

It is critical to show that our project has widespread support.

All that's needed is a simple email message to anna_tamura@nps.gov before June 15.

1. Please state that you support the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Memorial (Nidoto Nai Yoni - Let it not happen again) and site at least one reason, such as first JA in American history under Civilian Exclusion Order No. 1 to be sent to internment camps; internment was wrong; etc.

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Urge support for Alternative "C" which would make the memorial a satellite unit of the Minidoka Internment National Monument. After being the first group to arrive at Manzanar, the Bainbridge Island JA community transferred to Minidoka where they remained until the end of the war. By being part of the National Parks Service, the Bainbridge story would tell both the fore and after stories of the internment chapter.
List your name and address.

That's it. Also, would you please forward this as far and wide to whomever you see fit to hopefully get as many responses as possible?

Thanks in advance,

Clarence Moriwaki
Bainbridge Island

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