The inspiration for this website came to me in the winter of 2019, when my daughter was writing an essay for her US History 2 class. The subject matter was the internment of enemy aliens in the United States during World War 2. She was a high school junior at the time, and her US history teacher instructed the class to write an essay about the internment, and to research and report the story of an individual who lived through it.

I asked my daughter if she had picked an individual person yet, and if not, I suggested for her to research the stories of some of the Italian-American Fishermen in California who had their boats and homes seized, and were forcibly relocated. Better yet, track down interviews with any of the remaining internees.