Where was the apology?
Indeed, where was any acknowledgement from the mayor that the Kato family departed Estes Park in 1943 not of their own accord? Where was even a hint (or was it a hint by omission, the evasion that it isn't so much what notes the jazz musician plays, but what notes they leave out) that our local government voted unanimously to turn the Kato family, 50% of them U.S. citizens, into pariahs? Or did we avoid admitting any of this because, if circumstances recur in 2023, we would unfailingly do the same again? Let's see, because tensions are rising between the U.S. and China right now, and China may indeed soon invade Taiwan, there will likely be growing advocacy among the hick contingent for the "deportation" of everyone of Chinese descent living within a 10-mile radius once this invasion occurs. Suppose this deportation, God forbid, was actually carried out - After such rampantly ignorant behavior, and the U.S. being what the U.S. is, clinging with every desperate f