Ben by Daniel Shelton for May 02, 2022

A lot of modern day rich West Coasters got their big start using confiscated moneys, properties or businesses three quarters of a century ago. They could do it because of paranoia post- Pearl Harbour.

Inland as far as Chilliwack a Japanese farmer was accused of treachery because the swaths in his field were in a straight line “pointing” to the air base. (A signal to incoming bombers, y’know.)

This was not the brightest page In the history of Canada nor of the US.

I wonder if this will be another “myth” for those certain groups to deny every happened.

Yes in retrospect these events during WWII are bad. But we will never know what would have happened if it hadn’t happened.

I was wondering until the last panel about school. That a good remembrance of how he think as a boy – “at least there is no school” “oh, there is!!!!”