A friend sent me this email...
would like to share it here...
hello all!
is some way, shape, or form, the attacks on the world trade center and the pentagon had an effect on us all. this e-mail is more a plea to the better judgement of you all. a story about world war II that, surprisingly enough, many people i've told this to did not know.
many japanese-americans, mostly out on the west coast, were taken from their homes and put into our own version of a "concentration camp" in a remote area of the west. these people had everything taken from them, were stripped of their dignity, and once they were let go, were just told "sorry, hope everything goes well."
basically, hatred led us to imprison a bunch of innocent US CITIZENS because we needed to feel safe in our own country. i've already seen a lot of people say we should just randomly retaliate against countries such as afghanistan, libya, or iraq. why? because they house muslims.
PLEASE do not make the same mistake we did in WWII by stereotyping someone of middle eastern descent as someone who would be involved somehow in this. the cliche says that those that don't learn from past mistakes are doomed to repeat them.
funny, we live in a country that was founded on democracy, yet people will target a massive group of people due to the atrocities committed by a small group of peoplethat HAPPENED to be a part of that larger community. boy, that sounds pretty fair to me. hey, i bet sooner or later we'd get those jokers!
sarcasm aside, allowing yourselves to be blinded by hatred only breeds the same hatred that produced this event. let the people who know what they're doing take care of this. generalizing an entire religious group, etc, due to this act won't make the pain go away.
i send my condolences out to everyone that lost a family member or loved one in this series of events.
walt zink