Wild daisies in the Sand reopens a chapter in Canadian history. This book is a series of diary entries beginning in 1941, when author Tom Sando was imprisoned in concentration camps, first in Petawawa and then Angler, Ontario (just outside Marathon, Ont.) -- a young Japanese Canadian imprisoned only because he was willing to stand and fight for his rights as a Canadian. The Japanese Canadians relocated to Petawawa and Angler were imprisoned in maximum security penitentiaries: compounds encircled by three layers of barbed wire fences, and under constant surveillance by riflearmed guards stationed in watchtowers. The people were not prisoners-of-war or even criminals, but Canadian civilians deemed dangerous by the Canadian government because of their race.