internment camps

LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP While U.S. Soldiers Fought, Families Confined At Home To the Editor: Racial animus against Asians, including snide remarks about the “Kung Flu,” has no place in America. My father-in-law, Al Prather, was a lieutenant in the 442nd Infantry Regiment during World War II. Most of the enlisted men were Japanese Americans, most of the officers were not. Many of the families of the Japanese-American soldiers were imprisoned in detention camps, as a form of racial profiling…