Call for help! Nidoto Nai Yoni - Let it not happen again

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Hello,

 

Forgive me for being off topic, but this is a large list and I have

not posted before, but we desperately need all the help we can get.

With the current national 'patriot fever' in the US, we can not forget

what path, unchecked emotions has lead this nation to do, by turning

against it's own citizens. There is a mass effort to derail a WWII

memorial for the Japanese community that were detained and interned,

not just in honor of the Japanese families interned from Bainbridge

Island, WA, but to all Japanese interned during WWII. The bigger issue

here is, it can happen again, to any of us and it is. It is a

dangerous turning of the tide. Please take a moment, to send an e-mail

in support of this well deserved memorial.

 

Below is a forwarded message.

 

 

Thank you so very much,

 

Mira

 

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Dear Suquamish Olalla members and friends,

 

(((Japanese American Memorial: nation-wide email campaign against it.

They are " bombarded " with emails saying " no tax dollars " with the

typical messages, sometimes racist, of justifying the mass exclusion

and other vile nonsense.)))

 

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Many of you know Clarence Moriwaki, a member of Suquamish Olalla

Neighbors, who has kept us informed about efforts to build a

Bainbridge Island Japanese American Memorial. The effort has a great

deal of support on Bainbridge, but it is running into opposition from

a group that has launched a campaign to stop it. Please support the

Japanese American community by sending an email, as requested below.

 

Sarah

 

 

 

Sorry for the impersonal mass email, but would you please do me - and

the greater community as a whole - a big favor?

 

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 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.

 

2. 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.

 

3. 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

265 Brien Dr. SE #104

Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

(206) 855-9038