Lesser-seen color photos showing the U.S. military in the 1940s; The Washington Post, May 28, 2018

Kenneth Dickerman, The Washington Post; Lesser-seen color photos showing the U.S. military in the 1940s

"In 1942, six months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt created the OWI. While the [Farm Security Administration] FSA was created to depict the hardships that farmers were facing, the OWI’s mission was to foster patriotism as the nation mobilized for war during World War II. In that vein, it served as a government propaganda arm. The majority of the photos that the FSA and the [Office of War Information] OWI produced were black and white and are those that people are more familiar with. The color photos shown here are far less frequently seen."

Tom Brokaw: Friends Across Barbed Wire and Politics; New York Times, August 11, 2017

Tom Brokaw, New York Times; Tom Brokaw: Friends Across Barbed Wire and Politics

"[Mr. Norman Mineta] also urged young people to get into public service “to be at the table.” “If you’re not there,” he said, “other people are making decisions that impact you.”

His Republican friend, typically, is more blunt. “It’s embarrassing,” Mr. [Alan] Simpson thundered when asked about the current political environment. He said that Sept. 11 “injected something into us called fear.” And that fear, he worries, is overriding an important lesson of history: that patriotism, forgiveness and tolerance can coexist.

The senator likes to recall the words of Justice Frank Murphy, one of only three dissenting votes when President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 was upheld by the United States Supreme Court in 1944. Justice Murphy wrote that “the broad provisions of the Bill of Rights” are not “suspended by the mere existence of a state of war. Distinctions based on color and ancestry are utterly inconsistent with our traditions and ideals.”"