This is an answer to the following e-mail- Hi Steve, Guess you've never heard the shameful story of how thousands of Japanese Americans were taken from their houses, their possessions seized, and put into internment camps during WWII. Olympic skater Kristi Yamaguchi's parents were in these camps. One of the camps, at least, is now a state park/monument, whatever, that I visited. They look pretty bleak. Sadly, this person did not live during the time of the Japanese cowardly attack on Pearl Harbor, an attack that left many of our servicemen dead and wounded. An attack that was in no way was caused by any threat to the Japs by the U.S. Remember how their diplomats in Washington kept stalling our officials until the vicious attack took place.. Don't shed any tears for the Japanese-Americans who were moved to areas where the threat of sabotage could be reduced. Although they were housed in these camps, they lived a hell of a lot better than our men who were forced into the "Death March' in the Philippines. Instead of handing out $20,000 to these internees' families, we should have given that to our troops who were in the Death March. How many internees were tortured and killed? I'm sure that our fighting men would have gladly traded places with them. If you want the truth behind the so-called internment camps, read some of the literature that reveals the facts. Ed Higginson