Remember that in January 1942...

[Cattledog]

Italians who were not citizens were declared "Enemy aliens" over 600,000. All enemy aliens were required to register at local post offices. As enemy aliens they were required to be fingerprinted, photographed, and carry their photo-bearing "enemy alien registration cards" at all times. After much protest on Columbus Day 1942, Roosevelt lifted the ban.


Keep Fighting!

[rzemanfl]

1. They were also getting draft notices from Mussolini. n/t

[marlakay]

3. My father n law came over from Germany

before the war, his parents didn't want him to be a nazi. He was sent a letter from Hitler asking him to fight for the homeland, he burnt it.

[rzemanfl]

4. It would probably be valuable now.

My father still had the letter every soldier in the ETO got from Eisenhower thanking them after the Nazis were defeated when he died.

[marlakay]

5. We have joked before that it would be worth a fortune

on eBay or Antiques roadshow. But his dad hated what his country was doing and was very angry.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Several of my Childhood

friends still had their I.D. cards pinned to their shirts and Jackets on their first day of School in 1945. Their parents just did not trust the Locals.

[Hekate]

6. And then they rounded up American-Japanese families into internment camps for the duration

It was an ugly time, and a stain on the US. It's up to all of us to fight back now.