Letter from Roger Williams
Internments – June 2008 – Colorado Central Magazine
Editors:
Regarding Ralph Carr, mentioned on pages 32-33 in the May edition, I’ve visited the Amache site of an internment camp. A permit from town wasn’t needed — I drove right in. Not much was left but foundations. I wonder if Japanese in Hawaii were interned. One of my prep school classmates (Form of 1959) was a Japanese-Hawaiian.
There was another Japanese classmate, an exchange student from a school in Tokyo; he was one of the most popular boys in the (then all-male) form. He would have survived being on the other side, as a small boy. Apparently, and oddly, Germans were not interned; I think there is a large population of German descent in the Midwest, i.e. around Milwaukee (witness Anheuser-Busch).
My alma mater has a Busch-Reisinger Museum of Germanic Culture, now thriving; I don’t think the world wars had an effect on it.
Roger Williams
Boulder.
