Right. Not much attention is paid to it, but it was pretty serious business.
Many Italian fishermen, for example, people who had emigrated to the US decades
before Pearl Harbor, lost their livelihoods because they weren't allowed near
ports.

I lived in Concord MA during the war. In the 1940s it was a
truck-farming town, not a yuppie bedroom community. Many of the
farmers were Italian. One was so Italian that the boys were named
Primo, Secondo, and Tercero, if I spell them correctly. In the way of
boys, however, we were totally unaware that there was anything unusual
in this, and I don't recall that I ever associated them with the evil
Germans, Italians, and Japanese with whom the nation was at war.


all the best -- Dan Ford
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