GRANADA, CO-Amache internment camp opened August 27, 1942 following the signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. One hundred twenty-six thousand Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were US citizens were forced into camps during World War II. […]
“Don’t go near the fence,” is what many Japanese and Japanese-Americans who grew up during and shortly after World War II, remember from their childhoods. Their parents couldn’t impress upon their children enough to stay away from the border […]