Status Updates From My Lost Freedom: A Japanese...

"Injury was done to those very ideals we hold as fundamental to our American system. We, all of us as Americans, must strive to redeem those precepts that faltered years ago when I was a boy."

We're doing this all over again and Americans are just letting it happen. It'll take us decades to recover from the actions of the past three months.

I had many after-dinner conversations with Daddy about camp. Why were we in camp? Why didn't America's laws protect us?

"They should have," Daddy said. "We live in a democracy, a government for the people. We must participate actively in the process of democracy to achieve equal justice for all and to keep terrible things from happening. We have a duty to be the people who give democracy its meaning and its worth."