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Visiting the WWII Japanese American Internment Camps
The National Archives have extensive photos of life in the Jerome WRA Camp. I have selected a few that capture the heart of it and illustrate some key points made about the prison Camp. All photos, but the last, are from the National Archives.… Continue Reading “Jerome As It Was”
The Jerome WRA Camp was about 130 miles southeast of the city of Little Rock, Arkansas. There is almost nothing left of the camp that once held 8,947 Americans of Japanese ancestry for nearly two years. When the camp was built, the land was wooded… Continue Reading “Jerome as it is Now…”
This photo from the California Military Museum shows the Stockade front and center at Tule Lake. The jail, which was built shortly after the photo was taken, was adjacent to the Stockade compound. Both feature heavily in the rest of this story. Tule Lake started… Continue Reading “A Maximum Security Prison”
One of the most interesting things about the Tule Lake Camp concerns things that are NO LONGER VISIBLE…or, REMNANTS of things that are long gone… There are Mysteries to unpack and Stories to tell. Remnants of buildings and structures can be found all over… Continue Reading “Mysteries…”
We’ve seen the layout of the land… Now, let’s take a look at buildings and structures from the Tule Lake WRA Camp that are still there, intact, on the site. There are many more of them than first meets the eye…hidden in plain sight…… Continue Reading “Buildings and Structures”
The Tule Lake WRA prison Camp was placed in the middle of a dry lake bed, on land reclaimed and owned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. It was a desolate place, bitterly cold in the winter and hot in the summer. The wind… Continue Reading “Getting the Lay of the Land”
Tule Lake was overcrowded from the start. It also suffered from federal government mismanagement for the duration. This sorry combination was one of the factors that led to major problems at Tule Lake, to its becoming the maximum security prison camp of the WRA… Continue Reading “Overcrowding at Tule Lake”
The people who were taken to Manzanar retained great human dignity and a profound love of natural beauty. One expression of this was the placement of small clusters of stones near their barracks. This cluster is near where Building 5 in Block 28 was… Continue Reading “Spiritual Stones and Dusty Footprints”
This Memorial Day weekend, we remember the honor, the courage, and the sacrifice of Americans of Japanese ancestry who served in the American armed forces during World War II. As the United States entered WWII, there were many American politicians, columnists, broadcasters, and military… Continue Reading “Honor and Sacrifice”
In a place faraway from home…where people were taken against their will and in utter violation of their Constitutional rights…still in that place, there were some who sought to make places of beauty. It was a tenaciously human act of creation. The largest such… Continue Reading “Places of Beauty – Pleasure Park”
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