Posted on 02/22/2024 2:57:51 AM PST by Red Badger
Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado.
Image credit: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
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The US officially has a new national park. Amache National Historic Site near Granada, Colorado, has officially joined the likes of Yellowstone and Yosemite, the National Park Service announced last week.
Amache – also known as the Granada Relocation Center – has a dark past, having been one of 10 incarceration sites established by the War Relocation Authority during World War II to imprison Japanese Americans. Over 10,000 people, mostly American citizens, were detained at Amache from 1942 to 1945. At its peak, the site housed 7,310 incarcerees, making it the tenth largest city in Colorado at the time.
The site has now become the seventh national park established to preserve this unsavory chapter of American history, following the Town of Granada’s acquisition and donation of the land needed to establish the site into a park.
“As a nation, we must face the wrongs of our past in order to build a more just and equitable future,” Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland said in a statement. “[The] establishment of the Amache National Historic Site will help preserve and honor this important and painful chapter in our nation’s story for future generations.”
In March 2022, Amache became a National Historic Site, as President Biden assigned the area to the National Park System, making it the first such designation of the Biden-Harris administration. Prior to this, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, and made a National Historic Landmark in 2006.
After it closed in 1945, Amache’s original buildings were removed or demolished. However, it remains one of the most intact examples of a World War II incarceration site in the US. As well as building foundations and the historic road network, which are still visible today, the area is home to a historic cemetery, a monument, and several structures from the World War II era including a barrack, recreation hall, guard tower, and water tank.
It is thanks to the efforts of the Town of Granada, the Amache Preservation Society, former incarcerees and their descendants, and other individuals and organizations that the site is so well preserved and can help expand public awareness of Amache’s significance.
The announcement that the site is now formally established as a national park came days before the Day of Remembrance of Japanese Incarceration During World War II, observed on February 19 every year.
“Amache’s addition to the National Park System is a reminder that a complete account of the nation’s history must include our dark chapters of injustice,” National Park Service Director Chuck Sams said. “To heal and grow as a nation we need to reflect on past mistakes, make amends, and strive to form a more perfect union.”
Muslims are Muslims. Islam overrides everything.............
Maybe they can repurpose it for illegal aliens.
Seems logical.
In Hawaii (Pearl Harbor), they beat into your brain that there was never an act of sabotage by the US Japanese during World War 2. The beat it in so bad that I got suspicious and started wondering what they were hiding. Then it occurred to me: They never say anything about spying (or not spying) for Japan. That was my answer.
I guess the Forest Rangers will be having Kabuki dances there every Friday and Saturday night.
We owe illegal invaders NOTHING!
All they should be given is a trip back via the cheapest, most expedient means, comfort and amenities not included.
Well, if we are going to allow them into our homes as a sort of “refugees” seeking asylum, we at least should provide them a refugee camp instead of putting them up in five star hotels. This should be a refugee camp, NOT A NATIONAL PARK. If the Bidenskyyyyyyyyyy’s wanted the young skulls full of mush to learn about a WWII Jap internment camp, they should have forced their “teachers’” union thugs to teach about it in school. This joint isn’t where idiots should go to vacation. If the Bidenskyyyyyyys want to use it as a National Park, they need to throw in Smokey the Internment Camp Guard and a few buffalo.
11,000 German aliens and suspcious German-Americans were sent to camps in WWII, but not the whole 11,000,000 German-Americans. The total number was higher than 11,000 because their families came with them. 4,500 suspicious German aliens from Latin America and their families were also interned here. Similar things happened in WWI.
Not the first time it was done in time of war.
The Navajos were relocated during the Civil War due to pro-South mormons in Utah arming them and urging them to attack Union forts.
Apaches in Southern New Mexico because they welcomed in the Confederate Army.
Whites in Missouri were forced to relocate due attacks by pro-Southern Guerrillas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Order_No._11_(1863)
German-Americans in the US in World War I and II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans
It will happen again..................
Just what we need. 🙄
Lying by omission is what the Left does. Seeing that due to Free Republic from an event in early 2000 is what made me a dedicated FReeper.
“.....most of history that we have been told is lies...”
It is more what is emphasized or glossed over in the “story”....
There are lies out there....
-American Indians being noble savages,
-Europeans started the African slave trade.
-American separation of faith and state.
-but mostly omissions like:
-slavery alone caused the Southern secession.
-WWII was an unnecessary war caused by America unnecessary meddling in WWI and that all the 20th Century evils following can be laid at America’s doorstep.
-the Crusades were a part of a series of counter-attacks vs expansionist Islam...
Life is complicated....only broad sweeping statements can be made about any period, often wrong in detail and conclusion.
Any version will be HOTLY contested and dissidents shouted down.
I wonder if any Freepers will rise in outrage to my “outlandish/ignorant/racist” posits made above.
History is written and changed by and for winners to support their standing and beliefs.
Truth, like today is 7,000,000,000 stories mixing more or less as one.....just pick a few threads and follow them.
History being made.
The Empire of Japan never managed to develop a significant intel network in the US for some reason, which puzzles critics and defenders of FDR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans lists the many camps for folks of German descent.
Equal opportunity tyranny for all - by the Dems.
Same crap happened in WWI - understanding history is important.
“the wrongs of our past in order to build a more just and equitable future,
I have no idea what that actually means...”
That means white are sent to the next set of camps.
looks like the one in calif manazar off of the H395 in the desert
Some “japs” were spies.
Some were not.
FDR did not want to bother to figure out who was who.
The rest, as they say, was history....
thanks bert for the link
i stopped there once nothing is left standing
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