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15 years later, Turlock’s internment memorial stands as a reminder of dark history
It is essential to remember our history, especially the darker moments, so the mistakes of the past are not repeated.” ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN15d
A Field of Dreams Built in an Unlikely Place: A Japanese American Internment Camp
Smithsonian writer Rachel Ng, who reported on the endeavor. A transcript is below. To subscribe to “There’s More to That,” ...
Chicago Sun-Times8d
Chicago gallery exhibit explores WWII Japanese internment camps in US
Share A little more than two months after the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 that plunged the United States into World War II ... internment of 110,000 to 120,000 people of Japanese ...
Smithsonian Magazine22d
The Moving Story of Bringing Baseball Back to Manzanar, Where Thousands of Japanese Americans Were Incarcerated During World War II
In honor of his mother and others imprisoned at the internment camp, baseball player Dan Kwong has restored a diamond in the ...
Colorado Public Radio22d
Survivor of Amache Japanese-American internment camp Bob Fuchigami has died
Fuchigami was just 11 years old when his family was interned at Camp Amache in Granada, Colorado, where more than 7,000 Japanese-Americans were imprisoned during World War II. "We looked like the ...
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WWII soldier buried with full military honors 8 decades after his death as a POW
U.S. Army Maj. James J. O’Donovan, more than 80 years after he died as a POW during World War II, was laid to rest with full ...
CBS News22d
Bob Fuchigami, advocate for Japanese Americans incarcerated in Colorado during WWII, dies at 94
Fuchigami was one of over 10,000 Japanese Americans who passed through Camp Amache, also known as the Grenada Relocation Center, during WWII ... Like most internment camps across the country ...