America's War on Language

[William Warren]

Some German Americans,mainly members of the Bund were interned. I

> Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 21:30:38 -0400
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> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:58 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > It is a tribute to the melting pot that the largest ethnic minority in the
> > Homeland, German Americans, didn't need to be interned during two world
> > wars, and even marched off in droves against their Vaterland.  With the
> > ethnicity boom,  the pot got shoved to the back burner.
> >
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> After Pearl Harbor, some Japanese-Americans were able to avoid internment
> by moving east. My friend, Hideo, then a first-grader, moved with his
> family to Iowa. In school, one day, the teacher handed out
> construction-paper and told the pupils to draw something, color it, and cut
> it out. Hideo, for no particular reason, chose to go with a nice swastika.
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> Before dawn the next day, his house was raided by the FBI. The family was
> released, after he explained that the swastika was only an innocent,
> childish mistake. Hideo had had no idea that the U.S. was at war with
> Germany, too. "I thought that we were only fighting Japan!"
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