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...Okui was sent with his father and two brothers to the Manzanar War Relocation Center, a Japanese internment camp set on a windswept square-mile plot at the foot of California's Sierra Nevada, 220 miles north of Los Angeles. He spent three years there, living in tarpaper-covered barracks, where privacy could be eked out only by stringing sheets between bunks. Later, as a schoolteacher, he conducted tours of the site. But only now does Okui--and others who remain of the 120,000 ethnic Japanese, mostly American citizens, who were held at Manzanar and nine other internment camps...
...April the National Park Service, with $5 million in congressional funds, will open an interactive center for visitors to Manzanar designed to "provoke ... dialogue on civil rights, democracy and freedom." Exhibits will include a film that documents the camp's history and side-by-side photos of the U.S.S. Arizona and the World Trade Center, making an implicit link to the anti-Arab sentiment that has followed 9/11. "The exhibits are designed to change, because who knows what issues the country will be facing in the future," says Frank Hays, superintendent of the Manzanar historic site. "Sixty years of looking...
...chuffed and spluttered, wheeled into line, and started rolling. Led by a goggled policeman on a motorcycle, a jeep and three command cars full of newsmen, they headed for the dark, towering mountains to the east. Thus, last week, the first compulsory migration in U.S. history set out for Manzanar, in California's desolate Owens Valley. In the cavalcade were some 300 Japanese aliens and Nisei--U.S. citizens of Japanese blood...In the unfinished, tar-papered dormitories where they will live until the war ends, they made their beds on mattress ticking filled with straw...Some projects with which...
...death and the past, no matter how superficial that connection may sometimes be. Victims of gang wars, drive-by shootings and drug deaths are instantly memorialized with murals on walls in the inner cities. Serious changes in national attitudes may also be reflected in these projects. Places like the Manzanar National Historical site in the California desert, where an internment camp for Japanese Americans was located in World War II, and the 42 sites dedicated to the bloody history of the civil rights movement indicate that the country is as interested in the shadows of its history...
...only twelve years-old at the time, but Lillian Kimura still remebers that day in March 50 years ago when she and her family were herded into Manzanar, one of several internment camps scattered across the West Coast...