What is going on in the story? How does this detail or moment add to your understanding of the story?
As a teenager, I had many after-dinner discussions with my father... discussing everything from the government’s forced incarcerations of Japanese Americans... to politics.
He taught me the power of American democracy—the people’s democracy.
“People can do great things, George. They can come up with noble, shining ideals.
“But people are also fallible human beings, and we know they made a terrible mistake.”
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“We don’t know the unpleasant aspects of American history . . . we don’t learn the lesson those chapters have to teach us.”
They Called Us Enemy
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