Japanese Americans carry trauma from WWII internment camp
JUSTIN WINGERTER, The Denver Post
May 23, 2021
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GRANADA, Colo. (AP) Fifteen miles from the Kansas border, Prowers County Road 23½ comes to a dusty end, surrounded by sagebrush and prickly pear cacti and dead junipers. A place this newspaper called, eight decades ago, “as bleak a spot as one can find on the western plains.”
In one of the more shameful moments in American history, the federal government removed 120,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals from their homes on the West Coast between 1942 and 1945 and imprisoned 10,000 over that timespan in far southeast Colorado, at a concentration camp it euphemistically named the Granada Relocation Center.
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By JUSTIN WINGERTER | The Denver Post | Published: May 20, 2021 GRANADA, Colo. (Tribune News Service) Fifteen miles from the Kansas border, Prowers County Road 23 1/2 comes to a dusty end, surrounded by sagebrush and prickly pear cacti and dead junipers. A place The Denver Post called, eight decades ago, as bleak a spot as one can find on the western plains. In one of the more shameful moments in American history, the federal government removed 120,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals from their homes on the West Coast between 1942 and 1945 and imprisoned 10,000 over that timespan in far southeast Colorado, at a concentration camp it euphemistically named the Granada Relocation Center.
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Sister Margit Nagy, a member of the Congregation of Divine Providence, is the last Catholic nun to teach full-time at Our Lady of the Lake University.
Sister Margit Nagy hesitates to say she’s really, truly retiring. She prefers to say she’s taking a break from full-time teaching.
But make no mistake: It’s the end of an era.
At last weekend’s graduation ceremony at Our Lady of the Lake University, Nagy, 78, concluded a remarkable 42-year teaching career a half century if you include her service in Texas Catholic schools.