Tom Hula wrote, in part: "Japanese Americans
and German Americans, I'm sure, could speak volumes about
what it was like here during WWII. "

My grandmother was a rose farmer's wife before, during, and after the period of interrment, in Orange County area (then highly agricultural.) She tells it a little differently.

Japanese, citizens and otherwise, were interred based on their ethnic extraction, and without much regard for their other loyalties or expressed opinions.  A circumstance that does not justify this is that a few Japanese immigrants in the area did in fact create artificial landmarks (using materials or artifacts in common agricultural use at the time) visible from the air that could guide Imperial Japanese bombers (or whatever) to likely targets.

OTOH, Granny had a number of neighbors that were first generation German-Americans. The German lady next door (next farm)  was known, prior to our involvement in the European theatre, to sing the praises of Hitler, his movement, and how great it all was for Germany. According to Grandma, no German-Americans were ever sequestered or arrested unless there was hard intelligence indicating personal involvement in espionage. In fact, she says, the German lady in question was never mistreated in the community, and US Citizens of German ancestry were not viewed with a very jaundiced eye.

This all within the scope of Orange County, Ca and vicinity, of course.

-Dave

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