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The front gate of “Camp Six” detention facility of the Joint Detention Group at the US Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Jim Watson, AFP/Getty Images)
As a nation we have a history of committing atrocities that at the time seemed reasonable, but in hindsight shame the nation. Some of these are: the genocide of the American Indian; slavery; Jim Crow laws; McCarthyism; carpet-bombing Cambodia, the Immigration Act of 1917; the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II; and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Sometime in a more sane future, the detention center at Guantanamo Bay will be added to this somber list.
Martin Petters, Centennial
This letter was published in the Nov. 20 edition.
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