Gordon Hirabayashi

Gordon Hirabayashi Has Died; He Refused to go to WWII Internment Camp

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/01/04/144684260/gordon-hirabayashi-has-died-he-refused-to-go-to-wwii-internment-camp?ft=1&f=1001&sc=tw&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Choosing jail

Instead of Internment

Refusing years of razor wire camps,

Picking beets on dusty farms,

Or living in evacuated animal pens at fairgrounds,

Land and homes stolen.

Rights of a citizen stripped away

You remained

Small yet mighty,

Polite yet  invincible

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/04/us/gordon-hirabayashi-wwii-internment-opponent-dies-at-93.html?_r=1