Plenty of tales of heroism have been shared about the Second World War, but few illustrate the anxiety and injustices endured on U.S. soil. Dick is a fatherless boy and the only man in a household of nine. Anthony is your average Italian kid from Boyle Heights. He�s courting Stevie�s baby sister, Lucy. Stevie�s a go-getter whose reality is carved by his father�s sink or swim devotion to LA business. Frankie�s a glamor guy attending USC and the privileged son of a notorious Sicilian gambling czar. His kid sister Anna fears the same fate as the Japanese. War was never part of the plan. But more than simple war ties them. Italian-Americans made up the largest ethnic group to serve, yet sadly, more than half a million of their relatives living stateside became �enemy aliens.� The Fight Abroad honors the military service of Los Angeles Italians, while The Fear Back Home centers on the hardships they faced along the California coast�property seizure, curfew and travel restrictions, forced relocation, shame, and even internment. The quiet stigma is no longer hidden.