Pearl Harbor? What was that?
Janice Hahn concluded that showing Tora! Tora! Tora! on Pearl Harbor Day at a San Pedro Theater "would have been insensitive to the Japanese-American community".
Reductio ad absurdum and discussing the rewriting of history is left as an exercise, as is writing a letter to Janice letting her know how you feel.
Janice's contact info is availble here. Her email address is hahn @ council.lacity.org (remove the spaces around the @ sign).
Contact info for George Nakano is here. His email is Assemblymember.Nakano @ assembly.ca.gov (remove those spacess too).
UPDATE: Here's the email I sent. Can you tell I'm being sarcastic or not?
Your "Tora! Tora! Tora!" stance doesn't go far enough!
I read in the Daily Breeze (http://www.dailybreeze.com/content/bln/nmtora10.html) that you moved to cancel a screening of "Tora! Tora! Tora!" which was originally set for this coming Pearl Harbor Day.
I completely agree with you that showing this movie would have been "insensitive to the Japanese-American community," and I applaud your actions.
However, I don't think your actions went far enough.
I believe you should launch a campaign to have all references to Pearl Harbor removed from California schoolbooks. Perhaps high school seniors might be allowed to learn that this country was once attacked, but all impressionable younger students should be kept in the dark.
And, while we're at it, we should remove all references to Nazis from those schoolbooks as well. There are many fine German-Americans, and the thought that they should be subjected to historical facts like Germany's involvement in WWII fills me with abject horror.
Perhaps a commission of learned individuals could be formed, whose job it would be to determine which facts should be allowed to be mentioned, and which we should ignore. I hereby heartily endorse both of you for that commission.
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squib (not verified)
Thu, 11/14/2002 - 17:46
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