according to resist racism, this is a photo of a World War I veteran getting rounded up at the santa anita racetrack in arcadia, california, where japanese american civilians were held before getting herded like cattle into long-term internment camps during world war ii.
i don't know his name. i don't know anything about him. but if you know anything about war, you know how brutal, how devastating the two world wars were for our grandparents and great grandparents, even our parents. the sacrifices they made are unimaginable to us.
social justice, civil liberties, human dignity - it's difficult to remember these fundamental rights in the rush and flow of daily routine, but every so often, we need reminding that our freedoms cannot be taken for granted.
this photo breaks my heart.
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