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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 22454, member: 57463&quot;]<b> Again, thank you! </b></p><p><br /></p><p>You and I share something about how important it is for citizens to participate in their governments.&nbsp; You and I, Roy, are about the same age, mid-50s, baby boomers.&nbsp; So, one summer evening, when I was about 12 or so, running into the yard from playing army, my Mom stopped me. She sat me down on the back porch and said that she wanted to talk to me about the concentration camps.&nbsp; I told her I knew all about them -- Buchenwald and Dachau were all over TV and there were documentary movies playing in the theaters.&nbsp; &quot;No,&quot; she said. &quot;I want to tell you about the concentration camps here.&quot;&nbsp; What?!&nbsp; &quot;After Pearl Harbor, we locked up all the Japanese in America.&quot;&nbsp; So what? They were Japs.&nbsp; &quot;Their grandparents and parents had come to America the same way yours did. Many were born here. Some were three generation Americans, more than you. We locked them up on the excuse that they came from a country that we were at war with.&nbsp; But we were at war with Hungary and Austria and Italy, too. They could have locked us up.&quot;</p><p>Oh...&nbsp; So why didn&#039;t they?&nbsp; &quot;They needed our labor for their steel mills.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>And by the way, we were Republicans.&nbsp; Conservatives.&nbsp; Three years after that night, I was in Youth for Goldwater and then Young Americans for Freedom.&nbsp; So, my mother&#039;s economic analysis of the wartime loss of liberty always carried a double message to this day.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, we always voted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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