Yuiyoshida gets a letter in the mail from the United States State department

[MineralMan]

44. Sounds extreme, except that it happened here

in WWII to Japanese Americans, including many who were born here as citizens. I had a friend in college who was born in the Manzanar internment camp in California. She remembered little of it, of course, but her parents lost everything when they were sent to the camp. Everything. Given little notice, they could do nothing to deal with the small grocery store they owned. It was no longer theirs, and after the war, they had to start all over. Although she didn't remember the Manzanar camp experience, she told me a lot about her childhood after WWII and the struggles, both financial and psychological her parents went through.

That wasn't Donald Trump. It was FDR who sent her parents to the internment camp where she was born. It has happened before and could happen again. I was born in July of 1945. She was born in 1943, inside that camp. I've never forgotten what she told me about her life experience. It's a story we should all hear, I think.