Letters: Reassuring to see work in St. Paul toward understanding our common humanity

I wish to comment on the well written letter from JoAnn Blatchley of the St Paul-Nagasaki Sister City Committee. I found myself reflecting on my 40-year experience at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center as a therapist to World War II veterans in the Mental Health Section. I believe there are very few of us (veterans or therapists) left. When one reads news articles from that wartime period it is always in terms of “Japs or Nips” often followed by picture cartoons of Japanese with ugly faces, buck teeth and bayonets. There was seldom a sense of humanity. It would have been very difficult to describe their humanity when one considers their history in China, Korea, the Phillipines or any other location they invaded. Just this last week i shared my experiences of American POWs of the Japanese wi