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Kudos for internment article

This reader comment is submitted as a kind of intended footnote in S-R writer Rachel Alexander’s and photo-journalist Kathy Plonka’s excellent Sunday, June 11, Spokesman-Review front-page feature, which shares poignant stories describing the plight of now Spokane-residing Japanese Americans whose families were unjustly interred (imprisoned) by the U.S. government during the Second World War.

Being myself a long-term tenant in a Spokane apartment building owned by story-depicted, interment-impacted Mrs. Jeanne Tanaka, I do very much salute Tanaka family kindness and extraordinary generosity over the course of our 20 years – even though there’d be reasons for persons so adversely affected to hold such in reserve.

The in-depth American history local-focus of this feature story is a good reason why I continue my own hard-copy subscription to our valued regional daily newspaper, The Spokesman-Review.

Robert Zeller

Spokane

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