Friday, December 10, 2010

WWII Japanese-American draft resister dies at 94

[AP]  A Japanese-American who helped lead draft resistance at a World War II internment camp has died in Southern California.  When the government decided to draft Japanese-Americans in 1944, Emi and six others formed the Fair Play Committee, which argued that Japanese-Americans shouldn't have to fight for freedom abroad when they were denied it at home. Three hundred men from the camps were imprisoned for draft evasion.  More...