[jackbill]

My grandfather who was a POW in the philipines and made it through working as a slave in coal mines for japanese companies still around and other nice places, as well as surviving the bataan death march didn't get any reparations.

I am currently reading "Unjust Enrichment" by Linda Goetz Holmes, which is about the "white" prisoners of war that the Jap corporations used during the war. I recommend it. And I commend your grandfather, for being able to live through it. If he's still among us, give him my best regards.

He not only had to survive years of "hell" in those mines but first had to survive the "hell ships" that transported him and his fellow POW's from the Phillipines to Japan.

I'm sorry if I don't have as much "sensitivity" for the "survivors" of the internment camps here in the U.S.. Sure, it would have been better - perhaps - if we had not done it, but they've been compensated. Now, it would be much better if they either supported reparations for your grandfather and the others who were horribly abused by the Jap corporations, or just shut up.

[bonesmccoy]

Look pal. You're a newbie to this thread. The comparisons between the Japanese war camps and the FDR Concentration camps are idiotic. only a bunch of dumb morons makes that kind of comparison. The reality is that the people in FDR's camps were converted from a bunch of independent americans (who actually were contributing to the US economy) into a bunch of welfare dependent stooges...but that's what liberals want... a bunch of welfare stooges... well you may want a bunch of welfare stooges, but not me. Go back to your liberal socialist BS.