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My son's great-grandfather (wife's side) was part of these troops. Good man, made the best of his life and I hope he lives long enough to be able to talk with my son (he's only 5 months). Unfortunately his father never trusted his adopted country again. His mother was much more forgiving. They were all interned, along with his brothers and sisters, at Heart Mountain in Wyoming.

He can talk "to" your son about such matters even if he can't talk "with" him. You can videotape him sharing his account and his views or get him to write down such things.

History is all made up of personal accounts of events.

9 posted on 03/24/2004 10:44:24 AM PST by weegee (From the way the Spanish voted - it seems that the Europeans do know there is an Iraq-Al Qaida link.)

True. My wife never got much out of him. He didn't talk much about it. The first time I went and visited his home (they live in CA, we're in ID) after becoming engaged to his granddaughter, he opened up quite a bit. He claims he was "only a cook", but my take is that he just wants to downplay the whole deal. My wife was stunned that he opened up to me about it. I'll see about video of some sort.