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My father was interned during WWII as an illegal alien (He was a Jewish Austrian citizen who, with his family, were sponsored in England just before Germany invaded Poland. However, he and my Grandfather were later interned due to suspicion that anyone close to Germany might be spies. The intern camps in Britain became overcrowded, so he went to a camp set up in Canada (in part to get away from his father, who didn't want Dad to go alone). The allies later figured out that the internment camp members were harmless (in fact, most of my Dad's fellow inmates became scholars like himself). My Dad kept a diary of the experience which was later published. We still have the published copies of this.
My Father-in-law served in the Canadian military (army) and saw action overseas. He never really talked about the war, except that he would never eat corn (it was considered food for cattle). My wife's uncle was a paratrooper during WWII and would talk endlessly about it. Unlike my father in law, her Uncle considered it to be one of the highlights of his life.
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