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Indefensible internment
Reason, March, 2005 by Albert S. Kirsch, Eric Muller
Regarding "Indefensible Internment" (December), a reviewer should check the facts. Eric Muller writes, "While Lou Shimizu and Joe Takahashi sat in desert camps, Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio played baseball."
Gehrig had already died on June 2, 1941, and was playing baseball on the Elysian Fields, if anywhere, after Pearl Harbor. DiMaggio did play a full season in 1942, but did not play again until 1946, having served in the military, along with a number of Nisei draftees of the same generation.
Muller's point is well-taken. It's his rhetoric that needs work.
Albert S. Kitsch
Bal Harbour, FL
Eric Muller replies: Kirsch is correct. I must have misread Gehrig's stats.
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