Tag:Internment of Japanese Americans

Seven years ago on a quiet January afternoon in southeastern Colorado, I visited the site of Amache—the Granada War Relocation Center—one of ten internment camps where Japanese Americans were forcibly incarcerated during World War II. Though I had read about Amache before, nothing fully prepared me for the stillness that awaited me there. Wind moved through the dry grass, and the remnants of foundations, pathways, and scattered artifacts seemed to hum with the weight of memory. Over 7,000 people, most […]