ARKANSAS SIGHTSEEING: Rohwer Japanese-American Relocation Center now a monument to its captives

When World War II combat ended 77 years ago this month, many of the 8,300 internees who'd been confined behind barbed wire three years earlier at Rohwer Japanese-American Relocation Center had already departed. Thirty-one of them are honored by name on monuments at this haunting Desha County site.

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