Barracks Living

Scarlet Cheng’s Jan. 21 summation of the Japanese American National Museum and Nicolai Ourossouff’s architectural review have merit save, I feel, for one exception.

The barracks segment from an internment camp should have been compared with proper perspective. Living in these barracks was not a hardship.

Taken from an abandoned Civilian Conservation Corps camp, it also represents the home for many of us who survived the grim Great Depression. I, for one, lived with appreciation in such a barracks and relished this home as anything but a “concentration camp.”

JOHN BOWATER

Westlake Village