[politicket]

Let me fill you in a little bit regarding Japanese internment during World War II.

My father-in-law was interned in California. They basically had everything of value taken away from them unless they could find an honest person to watch it while they were gone. My FIL graduated high school in the camp and then PROMPTLY joined the U.S. Army to fight for his country. He ended up being put into the MIS (Military Intelligence Service) to interview Japanese prisoners of war to see if they had committed war atrocities.

Following the war, my FIL went to college on the GI bill and graduated as an accountant, but nobody would hire him in Los Angeles. He was finally brought on by a Jewish accounting firm.

He worked two jobs to support his family and eventually worked his way up to becoming president of a bank.

This book is idiotic on its face and the author should be ashamed. What a disgrace!

[Travis McGee]

Please reply to #6.

[BSunday]

He was finally brought on by a Jewish accounting firm

Talk about poetic justice !

For those closed minded defenders of anything that America ever does, don't let the Dems corner the market on criticizing America. I think it should be done by true Americans, not the likes of the Hate America First crowd. I refuse any other comment on the issue except my tagline.

[robowombat]

See my other post raising a metaphorical eyebrow about the intelligence background of Roosevelt's internment decision. I worked with a fellow in Sacramento that was probably your FIL's contemporary. His family had a farm near Fresno which had been developed by sweat equity. When the internment order came they were bought out by a local hero who was a Doctor. The MD wanted to avoid the medical draft and knew that he could finagle an agricultural deferment if he could claim his primary occupation was operating a farm. He cashed this fellow's family out at about $.05 on the dollar of assessed value. The medical hero went on to build one of the largest practices in that part of California since he was around during the war and all the other physicians except a couple who were to old were drafted into the services. There are thousands of similar stories in California and the other Pacific Coast states. Small wonder that many of the Americans of Japanese descent that I met seemed to be very self contained and politely distant.

[dennisw]

You should be ashamed for dragging in your father in law. The greater good of America was more important than your lame outrage... pure emotionalism. Japanese were lopping off the heads of American prisoners and putting them on death marches which is the real outrage.

Not Japanese Americans interned, who suffered for the sins of their brothers in Japan. Tuff luck!

[aculeus]

This book is idiotic on its face and the author should be ashamed. What a disgrace!

Erm, I'd be more impressed if you read the book.

[kitkat]

***Following the war, my FIL went to college on the GI bill and graduated as an accountant, but nobody would hire him in Los Angeles. ***

War is HELL! Whatever gave you the idea it isn't?

I can match your story from another perspective. My brother-in-law was in the air force in WWII. When his plane was shot down, he was taken prisoner by the Germans. He was also on a forced death march. He survived and, when he returned to this country, he went to school on the GI plan and became an eye doctor. He WAS NOT ALLOWED to take the qualifying exam in his own state of NY because he had studied at the University of Pennsylvania (one of the best in the country), and was unemployed for several years except for pick-up jobs.

Finally, NY State allowed him and other veterans to take the exam.

As I said, WAR IS HELL, and some innocent people suffer because of it. But I never once heard my brother-in-law complain about as you do.