Ferguson on World War II Relocation Camps
Ferguson states that “it is simply untrue that Japanese-Americans were interned in concentration camps during World War II.”
I don’t see how a man can be an effective politician when he denies historical reality, and creates his own personal version of things.
I am quite sure that Ferguson wonders why he should not have his own version of history, when the answer is very simple in the words of Cervantes: “To write otherwise--said Don Quixote--is not to write history: it is to write lies . . . history is like a sacred thing, because it has to be true, and where truth is, there you find God.”
I hope that Ferguson will ponder these words and meditate on them: They will make him a better historian and a better politician.
ANGELO A. De GENNARO
Los Angeles
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