text: I am appalled by the delusional article in last week’s “Letters to the editor”, by Kay Longhi.  In that letter, she equated the suffering and loss of homes, personal property and years of life by the Japanese Americans in 1942 to the inconvenience of not being able to purchase an airline ticket for a few thousand travelers.  A lack of empathy that monumental is outlandish.  The Japanese were forced from their homes and locked up behind barbed wire until 1946.  Does Kay really think that flying across the ocean, watching movies and being served beverages, food and snacks is like losing everything and being relocated to the desert?  It is this same sort of oversimplification and overreaction that causes so many people to go crazy over the buffoonery that spews from the mouth of the buffoon in the White House.
  I hope that if any Japanese Americans grace her gathering at Mukai with their presence, that she will offer up her heartfelt and humble apologies.