Good point, Larry, I hope more people can learn something about this episode and help to avoid a repetition.

Canada, too, interned people of Japanese descent in WWII, taking their homes and fishing boats away with little or no compensation. I grew up near the site of some of the camps and though the camps were gone, many of the families chose to stay in the area as it was a beautiful part of the country. I had several Japanese classmates in high school, and though I never detected any animosity about the treatment of their parents, I think that was due to their character - I certainly wouldn't have been surpirsed to know there was bitterness. Not that some of that didn't exist, David Suzuki the renowned geneticist, science educator and environmentalist, developed much of his drive as a result of his experiences in the internment camps of the Slocan Valley and I think he always had something of a chip on his shoulder because of it.

BTW, they were interened, not interred - to be interred means to be buried... hmmm, maybe that's not so far off the mark after all.