Re: San Jose's Light Rail after 25 years----inefficient etc
Author: Drew Jacksich
Date: 01-01-2013 - 09:03
To quote Gen. William T. Sherman, "War is Hell". What do you think would have happened if their cousins from the land of Nippon had hit the beaches in California? Every person of Japanese ancestry would have become a target. It was for their protection as much as ours.
Personally, I don't give a flying copulation whether you think my remark was tasteless or not, when it comes to Mineta, nothing is off limits.
Michael Mahoney Wrote:
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> Drew's remark (12/27) about Executive Order 9066
> was tasteless in the extreme. I realize that it is
> customary on this site to express oneself
> boisterously, but there are limits.
>
> As penance, he is ordered to go to the San Bruno
> BART station and spend 10 minutes or so looking at
> the photographs of families taken the day in 1942
> they left their homes, some not to return for
> years, some not to return ever.