One of the things I've been able to do for the last fifteen years was to tour different parts of our country on motorcycles and in the process I've learned a lot about our history, some good, some bad. I'm in the Parker, AZ area this winter and although I knew about the internment camps that Japanese/American citizens and other people of Japanese ancestry were incarcerated in, I've never actually walked in one. Yesterday I went to the Poston Camp I, II, and III. Although only a monument to the 17,867 men, women, and children who were held there, the 1200 who served in our armed services during the war, and the 25 who were killed in action is still there to mark the camps, it is a sobering moment to think the whole thing actually happened in a panic that struck our country after Pearl Harbor.
Anyone who gets close to the Parker area should spend an hour and check out the site. It will be good for the soul.
Anyone who gets close to the Parker area should spend an hour and check out the site. It will be good for the soul.
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