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This week marks 80 years since the forced incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans at internment camps across the U.S. during World War II.

By JUSTIN WINGERTER | The Denver Post | Published: May 20, 2021 GRANADA, Colo. (Tribune News Service) — Fifteen miles from the Kansas border, Prowers County Road 23 1/2 comes to a dusty end, surrounded by sagebrush and prickly pear cacti and dead junipers. A place The Denver Post called, eight decades ago, "as bleak a spot as one can find on the western plains." In one of the more shameful moments in American history, the federal government removed 120,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese na...

With the stroke of a pen, the lives of more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans would never be the same.

Neguse, Buck introduce bill to designate Amache internment camp as National Historic Site Russell Contreras/AP FILE - This Jan. 18, 2015, file photo shows a sign at the entrance to Camp Amache, the site of a former World War II-era Japanese-American internment camp in Granada, Colo. A University of Denver team is using a drone to create a 3D reconstruction of the camp in southern Colorado. The Amache effort is part of a growing movement to identify and preserve historical sites connected to peo...

camera icon iStockPhoto/milehightraveler Denver, CO – A former Japanese American incarceration camp in Colorado may be one of our next national park sites, following legislation introduced today by U.S. Representative Joe Neguse (D-CO) and Representative Ken Buck (R-CO). The National Parks Conservation Association commends this progress, which would designate Amache National Historic Site. “As America’s storyteller, the National Park Service is entrusted with preservi...