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JEROME, Idaho (AP) — Behind the barbed wire, the little boy pressed his ink-covered index finger onto the mint-green exit card. And a photograph was snapped of his frightened face.
Behind the barbed wire, the little boy pressed his ink-covered index finger onto the mint-green exit card. Paul Tomita was four. Independence Day at Minidoka, a camp in the vast Idaho desert, where over 13,000 Japanese American men, women and children were incarcerated during World War II as security risks because of their ancestry.
In the vast, high desert of southern Idaho is a place called Minidoka
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In the vast, high desert of southern Idaho is a place called Minidoka.