re: #56 Ward Cleaver

The Japanese were detained because they looked different, and were a visible reminder of Pearl Harbor. You couldn’t easily pick out a German-American on the street, so they weren’t detained.

The actor Jack Soo, that played in Barney Miller, was born Jack Suzuki, but changed his name to the Chinese-sounding Soo, to avoid the scrutiny given to Japanese-Americans.

My wife is happa haole and her grandmother had 4 boys. The two pre-1941 boys: Japanese first names; the two post-1941 boys: Anglo names.