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Japanese Americans carry trauma from WWII internment camp JUSTIN WINGERTER, The Denver Post May 23, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 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. ....
Japanese Americans carry trauma from WWII internment camp sfgate.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sfgate.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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. ....
It was a painful, dark chapter of family history. But during a pilgrimage to the site in 2008 with other survivors and his own family, standing on the barrack foundation where his family once lived after relocation, the stories came flooding out. “When I was standing next to my father there at the Amache memorial during the ceremony, I could just see the look on his face and the emotions on his face and in his eyes,” Homma shared, holding back tears, during a community roundtable on April 23 discussing new legislation that would incorporate the former incarceration facility into the National Park system. ....
New Buck-Neguse Bill Would Make Amache Colorado's Next National Historic Site ksut.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ksut.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.