[Congressman Billybob]

Japanese-Americans were locked up if they had "one Japanese grandparent," and lived west of the Mississippi, except on Hawaii. German-Americans were only locked up individually and on specific charges. Huge difference.

My book, Manzanar, gives the history of those camps. Had German-Americans have been locked up on the same basis, I wouold have died in one of those camps in 1943 -- the medical facilities at those camps were inadequate to deal with a premature baby who had one German grandparent.

Mears' description of the difference is correct.

John / Billybob

[Mears]

Son of a gun,I read your book.

My daughter in law is a sansei from Hawaii and I did lots of reading on the subject in the mid nineties.Her father was 15 when the war broke out,her mother a bit younger.

The wedding in Hawaii was one of my nicest memories.