Posted on 02/15/2022 4:30:22 AM PST by RandFan
The Senate on Monday passed a bill to make a former Japanese American internment camp in Colorado a national historic site.
The bill would establish the Amache National Historic Site, a former Japanese American incarceration facility located outside Granada, in southeast Colorado, as part of the national park system. The legislation last year passed the House and was shepherded by Colorado Reps. Joe Neguse (D) and Ken Buck (R).
Colorado Sens. Michael Bennet (D) and John Hickenlooper (D) celebrated the bill's passage of the Senate.
“The incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II at sites like Amache is a shameful part of our country’s history. Our bill will preserve Amache’s story to ensure future generations can learn from this dark chapter in our history," Bennet said.
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Alex Jones protested against her at the DNC
I’m surprised the Democrats want people to remember the time they put Asians in camps.
They generally try to hide their crimes.
It may be part of some historic site, but Granada is in the middle of nowhere (about 70 miles east of Pueblo). There’s just nothing from Dodge City, Kansas to Pueblo to see as a tourist, and it’ll shock me if more than 10 tourists a month might stop and spend 8 minutes looking at the historic site.
Should do the same for the D.C. jail holding the J6 political prisoners against their 6th Amendment rights.
Hindsight is always 20-20.
But the next step is to build a gulag next to the site, to draw traffic.
What will it cost the ever-generous taxpayer to create that “historic site”?
Oh. I get it. They want new, updated versions for that. And making the old ones "National Historic Sites" will call attention away from what's really going on.
Preserve the site? I thought that they were just going to refurbish it to get it ready for the unvaxxed.
J. Edgar Hoover was the only major figure in FDR's administration that opposed it.
“U.S. Senate passes bill to make former internment camp national historic site”
Hopefully next year they’ll pass a bill to make the PRESENT-DAY Internment Camp, the DC Central Jail, a National Historic Site.
Most of these, if you drive around the US...are just markers (probably in the $3k to $5k range), a parking lot (unpaved), and a couple of street signs to warn you about approaching it in five miles. In the whole state of Colorado, I’d take a guess that 200 of the historic sites/markers exist.
People would be surprised at how many sites/markers exist within 100 miles of their home.
Isn’t that a symbol of oppression like those evil statues?
I am looking forward to seeing a whole raft of “historic sites” dedicated to POWs from the Pacific Theater (or any place involved in the Japanese/Germans of WWII)...those sites would include civilian and aremed forces names of children, babies born in camp, adult males and females of virtually every nationality except Japanese and Germans, all teenagers and a list of those who died from starvation and maltreatment and causes yet unknown to their families.
Then I’d like to know how many are still alive and the numbers with PTSD related to the time spent as POWS under the gentle and refined Germans and or Japanese...PTSD does not relate to only one incident.... Surely I am not the only one still alive. What happened to BACEPOW, anyway?
I wonder about Vietnam, Indonesia, et al in exactly the same way. Why do we persist in such behavior?
I bet I will be long dead before anyone even thinks there might be a cause for the deaths and damaged people from those places and times...FDR, a Dem the one who disallowed
Americans and their families from returning to the USA. I hope he writhes forever with this around his neck.
Here’s to hoping we see no repeats...Nemaste, Bodega
Same crew that knew about the slaughter of Jewish peoples in Europe and not only refused to do anything about it, actively thwarted immigration of Jewish people.
The Democrat party has never been anything other than a tyrannical criminal organization, devoid of morals, winces its founding.
A few years ago, I sat next to a Jewish lady at a professional dinner. She told me she and her brother survived the holocaust because her parents had arranged an adoption by a friend who was there to take them in when they were put off a train en route to a concentration camp.
After the war, there was limited quotas for Jewish emigrants so they had to settle for Brazil. Not long after Eisenhower took office, a quota suddenly became available for them to move to the United States. She had no sympathy for the border jumpers of today.
It may be part of some historic site, but Granada is in the middle of nowhere (about 70 miles east of Pueblo). There’s just nothing from Dodge City, Kansas to Pueblo to see as a tourist, and it’ll shock me if more than 10 tourists a month might stop and spend 8 minutes looking at the historic site.
I might be one of those 10 tourists who would visit that site. My father and his family were interned there. Very little remains of the internment camp from what I’ve read.
The Colorado governor at the time was Republican Ralph Carr and unlike the other governors he welcomed Japanese Americans to stay in the state. My aunt’s family took advantage of that policy and were not interned.
That would have made a perfect spot for Resident FJB to put his Afghani ‘refugees’ until they could be jabbed and ‘vetted.
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