LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Heart Mountain is a spectacular and beautiful backdrop to a story of triumph and tragedy. Seventy years ago, an internment camp filled with 10,000 Japanese Americans sat in the shadow of the mountain.
It was just a few miles outside Cody, Wyoming, where the land is rugged and the weather is brutal. It’s where American citizens were imprisoned behind barbed wire and guard towers for no other reason than because of their heritage. Eight out of 10 were from Los Angeles.
Bob Fletcher, a former California agriculture inspector who, ignoring the resentment of neighbors, quit his job in the middle of World War II to manage the fruit farms of Japanese families forced to live in internment camps, died on May 23 in Sacramento. He was 101.
His death was confirmed by Doris Taketa, who was 12 when Mr. Fletcher agreed to run her family’s farm in 1942, the year she and her extended family were relocated to the Jerome War Relocation Center in Arkansas.
MCGEHEE, Ark. — The McGehee Industrial Foundation announces the opening of the WWII Japanese American Internment Museum on Tuesday, April 16, with actor/activist George Takei as special guest.
It will house the exhibit “Against Their Will,” interpreting the history during World War II when the Japanese American population was moved from the West Coast to ten internment camps across the country, forced to leave behind their homes and jobs.
Two of those camps, Jerome and Rohwer, were located in southeast Arkansas. They were home to more than 17,000 Japanese Americans.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A man who challenged the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans will be honored in Utah under a declaration signed by Gov. Gary Herbert.
The declaration signed Friday establishes Jan. 30, 2013, as Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution.
Korematsu, who died in 2005, was arrested in Oakland, Calif., in 1942 after refusing to enter an internment camp. His case led the U.S. Supreme Court to examine the internment order’s legality.
HONOLULU • Herbert Yanamura is an American, born and reared among the coffee farms of Hawaii’s Kona district. Yet the U.S. government branded him an “enemy alien” after the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor because he looked like the invaders.
So Yanamura volunteered to join the Army to prove his loyalty.
Nearly 70 years later, that same government honored him and the thousands of other Japanese-Americans who served in World War II with one of its most elite rewards: the Congressional Gold Medal.
On Dec. 7, 1941, high school senior Daniel Inouye knew he and other Japanese-Americans would face trouble when he saw Japanese dive bombers, torpedo planes and fighters on their way to bomb Pearl Harbor and other Oahu military bases.
He and other Japanese-Americans had wanted desperately to be accepted, he said, and that meant going to war. “I felt that there was a need for us to demonstrate that we’re just as good as anybody else,” Inouye, who eventually went on to serve 50 years as a senator from Hawaii, once said. “The price was bloody and expensive, but I felt we succeeded.”
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Witness: The Legacy of Heart Mountain
A special documentary - hosted by David Ono - on the history behind the camp that sets the scene for Allegiance
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Heart Mountain is a spectacular and beautiful backdrop to a story of triumph and tragedy. Seventy years ago, an internment camp filled with 10,000 Japanese Americans sat in the shadow of the mountain.
It was just a few miles outside Cody, Wyoming, where the land is rugged and the weather is brutal. It’s where American citizens were imprisoned behind barbed wire and guard towers for no other reason than because of their heritage. Eight out of 10 were from Los Angeles.
Bob Fletcher, who helped Japanese Americans interned during the war, Dies at 101
Former California agriculture inspector quit his job in the middle of World War II to manage the fruit farms of Japanese families forced to live in internment camps.
Bob Fletcher, a former California agriculture inspector who, ignoring the resentment of neighbors, quit his job in the middle of World War II to manage the fruit farms of Japanese families forced to live in internment camps, died on May 23 in Sacramento. He was 101.
His death was confirmed by Doris Taketa, who was 12 when Mr. Fletcher agreed to run her family’s farm in 1942, the year she and her extended family were relocated to the Jerome War Relocation Center in Arkansas.
“He saved us,” Ms. Taketa said.
George Takei to Speak at Dedication of Rohwer/Jerome Museum
The McGehee Industrial Foundation announces the opening of the WWII Japanese American Internment Museum on Tuesday, April 16, with actor/activist George Takei as special guest.
MCGEHEE, Ark. — The McGehee Industrial Foundation announces the opening of the WWII Japanese American Internment Museum on Tuesday, April 16, with actor/activist George Takei as special guest.
It will house the exhibit “Against Their Will,” interpreting the history during World War II when the Japanese American population was moved from the West Coast to ten internment camps across the country, forced to leave behind their homes and jobs.
Two of those camps, Jerome and Rohwer, were located in southeast Arkansas. They were home to more than 17,000 Japanese Americans.
Wyoming: Heart Mountain’s chill winds of Japanese American internment
The raw high desert east of Cody was the site of a World War II internment camp. The new learning center there finds compelling ways to relive those days.
Santa Monica College’s ‘Heart Mountain’ Selected For Prestigious Festival
The production “Heart Mountain,” a drama about the struggles of a family in a World War II Japanese internment camp, has been selected for the prestigious 2013 Regional Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival.
UT to Honor Fred Korematsu
The man who challenged the Japanese Internment was honored by a declaration which establishes Jan. 30, 2013, as Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A man who challenged the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans will be honored in Utah under a declaration signed by Gov. Gary Herbert.
The declaration signed Friday establishes Jan. 30, 2013, as Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution.
Korematsu, who died in 2005, was arrested in Oakland, Calif., in 1942 after refusing to enter an internment camp. His case led the U.S. Supreme Court to examine the internment order’s legality.
World War II Exhibit Asks Visitors, ‘What Would You Do?’
The National World War II Museum is opening a new wing with new, interactive exhibits that it hopes will give visitors a better understanding of the ethical and emotional challenges people faced during the war.
Japanese-Americans’ Congressional Gold Medal Goes on National Tour
Nearly 70 years after his service, the US government honors Herbert Yanamura and the thousands of other Japanese-Americans who served in World War II with one of its most elite rewards: the Congressional Gold Medal.
HONOLULU • Herbert Yanamura is an American, born and reared among the coffee farms of Hawaii’s Kona district. Yet the U.S. government branded him an “enemy alien” after the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor because he looked like the invaders.
So Yanamura volunteered to join the Army to prove his loyalty.
Nearly 70 years later, that same government honored him and the thousands of other Japanese-Americans who served in World War II with one of its most elite rewards: the Congressional Gold Medal.
Japanese-American Lost An Arm, But Not His Heart For His Country
DANIEL INOUYE WAR HERO AND SENATOR, 88
On Dec. 7, 1941, high school senior Daniel Inouye knew he and other Japanese-Americans would face trouble when he saw Japanese dive bombers, torpedo planes and fighters on their way to bomb Pearl Harbor and other Oahu military bases.
He and other Japanese-Americans had wanted desperately to be accepted, he said, and that meant going to war. “I felt that there was a need for us to demonstrate that we’re just as good as anybody else,” Inouye, who eventually went on to serve 50 years as a senator from Hawaii, once said. “The price was bloody and expensive, but I felt we succeeded.”
JACL Provides Statement on Allegiance Musical
The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) commends the producers and writers of Allegiance, a new American musical that premiered on September 19, for promoting increased awareness and interest in the Japanese American experience during World War II.
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