[CED/CD/EAT] Fwd: Patriotism is love

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Subject: Patriotism is love

As part of this year’s pledge to diversity and inclusion, I promised to highlight cultural or heritage months.  May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month as well as Jewish American Heritage Month.

Honor
Not long ago, my family and I drove up Mt. Lemmon and stopped at the Prison Camp campground.  My kids and I ran around old foundations and climbed on rocks while my wife hollered, “be careful.”  It wasn’t until I stopped to read a sign that a weight fell in my stomach.  The Catalina Federal Honor Camp was built during 1939 and expanded in the 1940s.  During WWII it was used to house Japanese-Americans internees under President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, and detain conscientious-objectors and draft resisters.

The Catalina Honor Camp had no security walls, and was bound only by rocks painted white.  America imprisoned people solely because of who their parents were and where they were from – something no baby chooses.  It reminds me not only of the sacrifice of our soldiers who fought overseas to protect our freedom, but of the brave Americans who fought here at home so that we can exercise our freedom to be who we are.  I guess the word “Honor” in the camp’s name reflects the prisoners and not the law.

>From Rejection Comes Love
Henry “Hank” Oyama, was born in Tucson in 1926, and grew up in the barrios where the Convention Center now stands.  Both of his parents descended from Japanese ancestry, but his mother grew up in Mexico and the family was bilingual.  His father died before he was born.  At age 15, Hank and his mother were interned under President Roosevelt’s Executive Order in Poston, Arizona in La Paz County.

Not long after being released, Hank was drafted in 1947 by the newly created Air Force and served in counterintelligence in central America.  He later graduated from the UA and retired from the reserves as a Lt. Col.
[Tucson education, civil rights advocate Hank Oyama dies]
While at the UA he developed two loves.  One was bilingual education and the second was Mary Ann Jordan from Buffalo, New York.  In 1959, Hank and Mary were denied a marriage license by the Clerk of the Pima County Superior Court under a state anti-miscegenation law.  Hank and Mary became the first couple to try this law in court by the ACLU of Arizona, a challenge they won.

Hank went on to be a champion for bilingual education and Latin American causes in Tucson.  He was an educator, education policy analyst, and became an administrator at Pima College.  TUSD named the elementary school at 2700 S. La Cholla Blvd to honor him in 2003.

Despite being rejected by the country of his birth, Mr. Oyama loved it enough to change it for the better for all of us.

Big Things Have Small Beginnings
As reported by the Jewish Pioneer website, there were only 48 Jews in the Arizona Territory in 1877.  From that small beginning a positive influence in our community emerged.  People of the Jewish faith played a founding role in Arizona, establishing the first synagogue in the Arizona Territory – Temple Emanu-El, now a museum<https://www.jewishhistorymuseum.org/> on Stone Avenue in Tucson.  You can still walk around campus [http://swja.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/albertstein-small.jpeg] and find original street lamps with the words “Steinfeld” embossed in the metal base, coming from the great merchant, philanthropist, and Tucsonan Albert Steinfeld, whose mansion you can still visit or host parties at downtown.

Labels Don’t Limit; They Inspire
People, regardless of their labels, have made an important contribution to the composition of America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MdK8hBkR3s

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