A response to Geraldine Ridgway
By Mercedes Garcia
These are the messages I received from Geraldine Ridgway’s op-ed published in Nov. 20 edition of the Pajaronian:
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My father, an Air Force fighter pilot, and our family, were stationed in Yokohama Japan in 1947 as part...


















