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in school, they tell children that history is taught so that past mistakes are not repeated... hearing about the retaliation attacks hurts almost more then the original travesties - we don't expect them to have morals, common sense, love of humanity. why can't we realize that we have to be better then them, and not strike out at innocents; that we have to show that we know what mistakes are, and show resolve not to make them?

To the Lady

The one is San Francisco who asked:
Why did the Japanese Americans let
the government put them in
those camps without protest?

Come to think of it I

should've run off to Canada
should've hijacked a plane to Algeria
should've pulled myself up from my
bra straps
and kicked'm in the groin
should've bombed a bank
should've tried self-immolation
should've holed myself up in a
woodframe house
and let you watch me
burn up on the six o'clock news
should've run howling down the street
naked and assaulted you at breakfast
by AP wirephoto
should've screamed bloody murder
like Kitty Genovese

Then

YOU would've

come to my aid in shining armor
laid yourself across the railroad track
marched on Washington
tatooed a Star of David on your arm
written six million enraged
letters to Congress

But we didn't draw the line
anywhere
law and order Executive Order 9066
social order moral order internal order

YOU let'm
I let'm
All are punished.

Mitsuye Yamada