Kakki What a great story. I love stuff like this. Thanks for sharing it. Love
Paz on 9/17/02 6:26 PM, kakki at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Darice, > > I saw a show on this in the past year. As I recall there was also > "relocation" of some Italians, too (see Mussolini threat). > > My father was stationed at Ford Ord in Monterey during WWII. He used to > tell me about some German prisoners of war that were processed through there > one time. I thought it was amazing - how did they end up on the West Coast? > He and another soldier had to drive the prisoners over to Salinas to the > detention facility one afternoon. It was very hot out and he stopped the > truck at a roadside place to get some Cokes. He bought all the prisoners a > Coke, too, and he said they were stunned that he would do that for them and > also let them out to walk around. He chatted with them and in the > conversation somehow happened to mention that he and my mother did not have > a refrigerator. A month later he got a message that these prisoners had > found odds and ends at their camp and had actually engineered and > constructed a little refrigerator for him! He said it was a piece of art > and worked beautifully. A little story of how humanity can bridge a war. > > Kakki > >> There was a question about why German Americans were not subjected to the > same >> interment as Japanese Americans during WWII. >> I have heard a very little about German interment camps over the years, so > I >> did a Google search. >> Search was--+german +"interment camps" +america >> and I got a lot of information. >> It seems as if 31,280 Germans (over 120,000 Japanese) were "relocated" > during >> the war. >> The San Jose Mercury News article looked like a good overview. >> Darice
