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  • Idaho WWII prison camp controversy flares

    06/23/2006 12:37:12 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 92 replies · 1,605+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 6/23/06 | Christopher Smith - ap
    HUNT, Idaho - The National Park Service wants Congress to remove the word "internment" from the name of a national park commemorating a World War II prison camp for Japanese-Americans. In a management plan for the Minidoka Internment National Monument finalized this week, the Park Service says the term legally means imprisonment of civilian enemy aliens during wartime and does not accurately reflect the government's forced relocation of thousands of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent. The agency wants the name changed to Minidoka National Historic Site, which would match with the only similar prison camp under its protection, California's Manzanar...