To the editor: Your article on baseball at the Manzanar prison camp in California’s Owens Valley did an enormous disservice by describing the location as not way more than “a number of outdated barracks, a weathered picket fence strung with barbed wire and a wind-battered guard tower,” with a “tiny car parking zone [that] is sort of by no means full.”
How did the author miss the great museum housed within the gymnasium? It’s subsequent to that “tiny” car parking zone, which has greater than 60 areas and 10 pull-through lanes for RVs or buses. Tiny by L.A. requirements?
The museum itself is value a number of hours’ go to, because the shows are properly achieved and really partaking. On the again wall there are the names of the greater than 11,000 inmates of the focus camp. It’s a sobering reminder of what our nation is able to doing to its personal residents.
Scott Mayeda, Encinitas
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To the editor: Thanks for front-page consideration to the Manzanar Nationwide Historic Web site. My very own heritage is Norwegian and Welsh, so for years I drove by the place the place hundreds of Japanese People had been imprisoned throughout World Struggle II on my option to Mammoth, pondering I ought to cease someday.
Now I at all times cease. It’s simple and impactful. You may simply drive the perimeter, which incorporates the baseball area, or you possibly can go inside — totally free — and get a good higher sense of the dignity these imprisoned sustained. On the entrance gate, you’ll be taught some very brilliant Caltech-connected males spent their time there attempting — and succeeding — to search out an alternative choice to the rubber we People had been being blocked from accessing in the course of the struggle.
In different phrases, these People of Japanese heritage, despatched away from their houses and communities to Manzanar, had been nonetheless attempting to assist the US win. Outstanding.
Judi Healey, La Cañada Flintridge
