Letter -- James Speed

First, Mr. Ruppe, I said that hindsight is 20/20, not history. They

are two different things.

You say that history is open to interpretation, which I certainly

disagree with, but if it is, then how about I interpret the relocation of

the Japanese as a very “moral” act. Using your logic, a case can be made

that moving the Japanese Americans to isolated locations was in their

best interest, to spare them any harm from the outpouring of

anti-Japanese feeling prevalent at the time. How’s that for both

interpretation and “morality”?

Oh, and you did state that the law relocating the Japanese was

“immoral,” so if justices Black and Douglas upheld it, then by inference

you suggest that they were immoral. I don’t see how a reasonable person

could conclude anything else.

By the way, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the executive order. Guess

he’s immoral, also!

Your “point” about La Crescenta 2002 and January 1942 proves my point

exactly. It is easy for you revisionists to sit back 50 years later and

pontificate about and deplore what is moral and what is not, when you

weren’t there to make a judgment based on the facts existing at that time

and place.

JAMES SPEED

Glendale