At its peak, Amache held more than 7,300 internees, who were confined within a single square mile by barbed wire and armed guardsAt the end of the war, the federal War Assets Administration sold Amache's buildings until all that remained were foundations and a dusty street grid. These structures got a second life on farms and in towns across southeastern Colorado and nearby parts of Kansas and Oklahoma.
But high school teacher John Hopper wanted to change all that. Hopper, who grew up in nearby Las Animas, Colorado, came to Granada to teach social studies in 1989. He'd heard about Amache growing up and then again during college at Colorado State University, but did not know much. "Once it was bulldozed over, it was out of sight, out of mind for a lot of people," Hopper said."When we started studying it, these students didn't know anything about it and they lived half a mile away."
But words can only convey so much. Efforts are now underway to reconstruct the original buildings at Amache, which became a National Historic Landmark in 2006, so that visitors can see and feel what life was like for internees.
Gay guys will probably use it as a bath house.
Can we put the Chinese there?
Great read. Hope they achieve that landmark status. History should not go unnoticed.
Great read. Hope they achieve that landmark status. History should go unnoticed.
Hopefully that teacher will show photos of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of the Japanese atrocities in Nanking China and so on . That teacher needs to offer context of why we did what we did at that time in history.
Cool we can put all the people coming back from China there.
Democrats built this like they built the cages on the border
Good. It can be used as a safe place for Democrats after the next election
Lol I love how liberals love this topic. Internment camps were necessary because of multiple incidents of surveillance, espionage by Japanese-Americans to Imperial Japan. It was literal global TOTAL war, life or death sh*t. Not this proxy war BS of today.
Wondered where the Chinese got their current ideas from....
FDR got them started, and current liberal Democrats want to get them ready again for their enemies.
You neglected to mention the Japanese were imprisoned for only 36 months and received bothan apology and Reparations from the US Govt, but Black folks been suffering for 465 years under white supremacy, and still waiting... NoBlackVote2020 Reparations2020
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE
They getting the gulags ready for Bernie?
but confederate statues come down
You forgot to mention that it was a democrat president who put Japanese in prison camps, the same party who fought against civil rights for blacks. Oh, also the same party to build those “cages” for kids for which libs falsely blame Trump.
FDR...
Sounds pretty racist but whatever
And the Italian camps?
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