Indefensible internment.

• Author: Kirsch, Albert S.
• Position: Letters - Letter to the Editor

Regarding "Indefensible Internment" (December), a reviewer should check the facts. Eric Muller writes, "While Lou Shimizu and Joe Takahashi sat in desert camps, Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio played baseball."

Gehrig had already died on June 2, 1941, and was playing baseball on the Elysian Fields, if anywhere, after Pearl Harbor. DiMaggio did play a full season in 1942, but did not play again until 1946, having served in the military, along with a number of Nisei...