and when she returned to her hometown this summer for the first time in a long time.

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.

we could see acres of sun-dried grasses during a hot and arid Northern California summer.100-plus-acre site where the camp originally sat.

and the word survivor to the incarcerated — the number of whom diminishes with each passing year.

Those who refused to swear unconditional loyalty were transferred to Tule.I could see the barbed-wire fence and guard towers.

government towards Japanese Americans who were wrongly incarcerated.It was the most horrible day of my life.

He and his brother Henry had never ridden a train before.attributing the cause of the wrongful incarceration to three factors: war hysteria.