‘German-Americans and Italian-Americans also were interned during WWII’
12/16/2016, 9:03 p.m.
Re editorial, “The lessons of war,” Dec. 8-10 edition:
Why did you not tell the rest of the story of internment?
That is that German-Americans and Italian-Americans also were interned during World War II.
German-Americans were taken from their homes and their workplaces, as were Japanese-Americans. German-American families also were destroyed.
By the way, no legislation by President Reagan or any other president apologized for the egregious act of internment of German-Americans. Nor were German-Americans paid by the U.S. government for being victims of internment.
I was a U.S.-born internee at age 12.
ARTHUR D. JACOBS
Tempe, Ariz.
The writer is a retired major in the U.S. Air Force.
