By Brad Petrishen

Seventy-five years ago today, the fallout on U.S. immigrants from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor began. The FBI, on orders from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, began rounding up Japanese people deemed "potentially dangerous," more than 100,000 of whom ended up in internment camps.

But while the story of Japanese internment - for which the U.S. has formally apologized and paid compensation - is widely known, many are surprised when they hear that Italians were also targeted. "It's una storia segreta - a secret history," Lawrence DiStasi told a couple of dozen people at Our Lady Mount Carmel Church Wednesday night. "More Italian-Americans than you can imagine still have not heard of this."

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