Humor has gone out of the world*, or my humor is just too subtle to be detected via email. ;') That said, my German heritage ancestors fought proudly in every war this country has had since they immigrated here. even my uncle served, until they kindly asked him to leave with honor. Which tells you something of my uncle's ability to serve, i.e. they didn't trust him with a mop, much less a gun. He never did satisfactorily answer why. But why you'd let a skilled carpenter go at 6'5" and 200+ odd pounds of solid muscle is a mystery that won't get solved. He volunteered, JFTR. The same can be said for the rest of my immigrant ancestors, back to the time of the colonies. In some cases I have family on both sides of the conflicts. As is likely to be the case in Germany, once I start running the roots forward. I'm not aware of any of my family being part of the American Nazi party (aka Bund), which was a good predictive precursor to being housed in an American "Camp" during WWII. Certainly not the only cause for such interment. War is Hell. Note that none of the military papers for any of my German ancestors were helpful from a genealogical perspective, except to show when and where and how they served. Brian * There is now talk of banning episodes of the Simpson's because of the nuclear accident in Japan. Although, since Homer works in a Nuclear plant, I don't see how banning just a few specific episodes is going to be helpful to that goal, to "think about [insert category of people]". IIRC, there's a nuclear accident in the show's lead-in.