XPost: alt.war.vietnam, alt.politics.immigration, az.politics   
   XPost: alt.survival   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On 03/01/2017 06:55 PM, Sam Spade wrote:   
   > Sounds better than internment camps.   
      
   Ever been out to Manzanar? Most of the buildings are gone but as I   
   walked back to the visitors center from the memorial in the dusk, I   
   thought I heard a ghost or two.   
      
      
   > Some of the Japanese were screwed by FDR's order.  But, the country   
   > thought a Japanese invasion was coming.  Can you blame them after Pearl   
   > Harbor?   
      
   I come from the other side of the country and most of my family were of   
   German heritage. There was a half-hearted attempt to change German place   
   names, and German Shepherds and Dachshunds got different titles but   
   there was no attempt to intern American citizens of German extraction.   
   Of course, that would have been about 25% of the country.   
      
   It was a lot easier to demonize the Japanese. My brother was a Marine   
   aviator in the Pacific so I was brought up to avoid any Japanese   
   products. About 40 years later he showed up in his motorhome with a   
   Toyota Tercel in tow, saying "I never thought I would do it..."   
      
   Now it's the Russians that are bad, bad, bad.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)