World War II columns

[AlexanderBNess]

I have a new gig writing over at STL Comics, an ebay retailer who is looking to create a comics content site.  My first column there was about how comics were used as propaganda vehicles in WW II and the second was an article that included a short interview with Roy Thomas about his comics dealing with the characters of the Golden Age, and particularly the WWII teams of the INVADERS and the ALL STAR SQUADRON.

http://Http://stlcomics.com/columns/tftlof

read 'em, and enjoy the cover images therein.

alex

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Alexander Ness
The Land Of Frost
Box 142
Rockford MN 55373-0142

[JCVaughn]

I have a new gig writing over at STL Comics, an ebay retailer who is looking to create a comics content site.  My first column there was about how comics were used as propaganda vehicles in WW II and the second was an article that included a short interview with Roy Thomas about his comics dealing with the characters of the Golden Age, and particularly the WWII teams of the INVADERS and the ALL STAR SQUADRON.

http://Http://stlcomics.com/columns/tftlof

read 'em, and enjoy the cover images therein.

alex

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Alexander Ness
The Land Of Frost
Box 142
Rockford MN 55373-0142

Really enjoyed your WWII columns. I have to take issue with the notion that the Pacific War was racial in motivation. They weren't race war bombs that ripped through our ships at Pearl Harbor. They were just regular bombs. There was a racial component to our response, of course.

J. Edgar Hoover was entirely against the relocation camps, interestingly enough. Michelle Malkin, though, makes an argurment for them in her new book, IN DEFENSE OF INTERNMENT: THE CASE FOR "RACIAL PROFILING" IN WORLD WAR II AND THE WAR ON TERROR, which I haven't read yet (she's Asian-American before the Thought Police gets everyone bent out of shape).

Look forward to reading more of your stuff.

[AlexanderBNess]

Thanks for reading my columns and replying here.

I did my master's thesis on the Internment so we might have to agree to disagree.

I appreciate the feedback a lot!
alex

[Delvie]

Congrats on the new gig.

I'll be picking up that book JC.
I probably have a liberal view on the subject, but I like to hear other peoples reasoning & facts before I misjudge or misinform.

[AlexanderBNess]

thanks Delvie.
I appreciate it.
alex

[JCVaughn]

Thanks for reading my columns and replying here.

I did my master's thesis on the Internment so we might have to agree to disagree.

I appreciate the feedback a lot!
alex

Regardless of how we reacted -- poorly, in my opinion -- that does not make responding to the attack on the US a racial war any more than the British calling the Germans "The Hun" makes the European Theater an ethnic war on the side of the Allies.

If you want to make the case that for the Japanse it was a race war, I would probably in the end have to concede that... eventually.  ;)

[JCVaughn]

Congrats on the new gig.

I'll be picking up that book JC.
I probably have a liberal view on the subject, but I like to hear other peoples reasoning & facts before I misjudge or misinform.

I happen to think Michelle's spot-on on the subject of immigration, but on the surface at least I'm 180 degrees opposite her position on this particular subject. I look forward to reading it.

[Delvie]

I happen to think Michelle's spot-on on the subject of immigration

Yup. I agree. I am glad to see that she doesn't use the old worn out theory that immigration hurts the economy. I do disagree w/ her opinions that the extra measures should be extended to exclusively middle-eastern immagrants, etc. As soon as that happens, hardline Islamic fundamentalists of other ethnic groups will be recruited to enter America. You can be politically correct  & still be secure (IMHO). Treat everyone the same until it is proven they are not a threat. If everyone is treated the same, how could anyone claim unfair treatment.

just my opinion

[jsniderfamily]

Is there a correlation to be made on middle-eastern containment in CUBA right now to camps in WWII?
Were Japanese Americans considered terrorists in WWII?

[Delvie]

Yes, we placed the Japanamericans in our own concentration camps during WWII. Were they as bad as the Cuban base? Probably, but they were suspected Japanese as opposed to suspected terrorists. More specific... spies.

[JCVaughn]

Is there a correlation to be made on middle-eastern containment in CUBA right now to camps in WWII?
Were Japanese Americans considered terrorists in WWII?

Joe - That would be a stretch.

The combatants in Cuba are there because they were fighting our forces. They are kept in jail.

The internment camps where American citizens of Japanese birth or descent were horrible and deplorable, no way around it, but they were not the same as Camp X-ray.

Not much better, but some better, specifically in that one could move around in the camp and socialize to some extent.

Not trying to minimize the evil of our camps, btw. Just clarify.