This image of Dorothea Lange's from 1942 at the Getty --finally reopened, what a relief/thrill-- is particularly apt today, July 4th, when so many of our immigrants are either overtly or stealthily still under siege. Lange made haste to Little Tokyo in San Francisco after the bombing of Pearl Harbor to document the patriotism of this endangered community. Soon after the photograph was taken these children were interned for the remainder of the war. Forgive my compromised snapshot but you get the drift.

Pledge of Allegiance, Raphael Weill Elementary School, San Francisco, Dorothea Lange 1942, Getty Museum.