Remains of the Amache internment camp, approximately one mile southwest of Granada, Colorado.
The coronavirus pandemic has stalled the push to establish the Amache internment camp in southeastern Colorado as a unit of the National Park System. The Colorado Sun reports the crisis has stifled the normal schedule of public comment and wreaked havoc on the prescribed timeline.
At first, the trip unfolded as just an academic tracing of family history.
John Tonai had for years heard the stories from his father, Minoru, about the Amache internment camp in southeastern Colorado, where the U.S. government transported thousands of Japanese Americans from California and held them behind barbed wire and guard posts for three years during World War II. The family lore became a constant soundtrack that, over time, receded to a kind of background noise always heard, seldom absorbed.
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A sign marks the location where Block 26 barracks were located at Manzanar National Historic Site in California on December 9, 2015.
For the Amache site, in Colorado, effort on the federal level officially began in late 2019 with the John D. Dingell Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act, but the COVID-19 crisis stifled the normal schedule of public comment and wreaked havoc on the prescribed timeline.
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At first, the trip unfolded as just an academic tracing of family history.
John Tonai had for years heard the stories from his father, Minoru, about the Amache internment camp in southeastern Colorado, where the U.S. government transported thousands of Japanese Americans from California and held them behind barbed wire and guard posts for three years during World War II. The family lore became a constant soundtrack that, over time, receded to a kind of background noise always heard, seldom absorbed.
Support Sought for Third Printing of ‘Journey of Heroes’
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Stacey Hayashi and cast member Chris Tashima at a 2019 screening of “Go For Broke: An Origin Story” in Pasadena. (J.K. YAMAMOTO/Rafu Shimpo)
HONOLULU “Journey of Heroes: The Story of the 100
th Infantry Battalion and 442
nd Regimental Combat Team,” an internationally acclaimed and historically accurate graphic novel by Stacey Hayashi, has reopened its call for ad space going into its third printing.
Originally self-published in 2012 as a project endorsed by the 442
nd RCT Foundation, its first printing of 10,000 became 12,000, and 5,000 books were donated to public schools and libraries in Hawaii. The remaining books from the first printing were sold to recoup production costs, and quickly sold out in a few months.
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