America's War on Language

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 3:32 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> WG, which way was Hideo's manji facing? Was the FBI aware of an
> orientation criterion? Were you?
>

I didn't think to ask. There was a war on and the family was jap. Why would
the FBI have cared about a triviality like orientation - indeed, especially
*not* orientation - under those circumstances? There was no W:pedia, in
those days. Besides, when the Second World War was begun, I was only two
years old. Naturally, I was *far* more sophisticated than the average child
of that age, needless to say. Nevertheless, I was not so aware as to have
considered the problem of the orientation of the symbol.

Youneverknow.


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-Wilson
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