Dear Citizens,

Seventy-five years ago on Sunday, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an Executive Order that led to the internment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II. Most of those people were American citizens. Many of them were children. One of the camps that about 10,000 Japanese-Americans came to was in Colorado.

At the time, many Americans thought it was the necessary and right thing to do. Today, most Americans believe it was a big mistake and a dark hour in our nation’s history.

We have to stop and wonder how history will judge the choices we make, especially the ones that we’re so certain are correct and necessary.

Sincerely,

Mr. Heimbuck