family was placed in january of 44 to crystal city, texas, in a family camp. crystal city facility shows how detainees of the world war ii lived, worked and play ed under the traditional american standards of decent and humane treatment. it was surrounded by barbed wire. we had guards on horses going around all the time. there were japanese americans, german americans and italian americans. there were several hundreds italians and italian americans who were interned during the war. some 600,000 were not citizens and cast as enemy aliens. could not own certain things and could not own fire arms and short wave radio reception. they couldn t own cameras and they could not travel beyond a 50-mile radius.
well, you know, tell the whole story. pearl harbor. it must never happen again. following the pearl harbor attack, in december of 1941, my father was arrested as an enemy alien. mier who was left at home with three small children. the family was reunited at internment camp in texas. i was 11 yearsed when my father was arrested in november of 44. they suspected he was a nazi, which he was not. he was taken off to ellis island and they didn t know where i was. i wrote a letter to the justice department telling them what they did to my father was un-american. i got a response that sort of said tough, your father will remain interned. i was eight years old when my father was interned. taken by the f.b.i. in the middle of the night and the family was placed in january