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a Zócalo Public Square inquiry supported by the Mellon Foundation.Lets take that further: Words have lied about this history — so they should clarify how we remember it.

living in crowded tar-paper barracks with little to no privacy.Tule Lake survivor and poet Hiroshi Kashiwagi.Though these buildings were removed after the war (many of them repurposed nearby for homesteaders who won land grants).

the wrong language can prevent survivors and descendants from visiting former sites of Japanese American incarceration to honor our history — and to heal.Even within the Japanese American community.

000 people incarcerated at Tule Lake.

where 74 blocks of barracks were located.just a row of toilet pots on the concrete floor.

America suffered a manpower shortage and looked to the detained Japanese Americans.Takei remembers the soldiers saying as they walked up and down the aisles.

becoming the most decorated of any military unit in U.he and his 4-year-old brother watched frozen in terror as soldiers armed with rifles and bayonets entered their home and ordered his family to leave their home at gunpoint.