This learning center, she says, is one way to help the Japanese-American community do that and heal.
Time for reflection
Board member Doug Nelson says that the issues addressed by the center are relevant today, as the nation confronts a different enemy.
"Throughout American history, but you don’t have to think too much beyond today, the effort to balance our national security with our protection of people’s individual civil rights has always been in time of war or national anxiety, has always been a difficult balancing act."
In that respect, Nelson hopes the center will provide the opportunity for education, as well as reflection.
A replica of one of the camp’s watch towers in the exact place where it once stood. The smoke stack of the hospital is in the background.
He notes that during the war, some of the camp’s neighbors accepted the argument that Japanese-Americans were a threat to the United States. Others rejected that idea, and sympathized with and befriended internees. In fact, it was local residents who wanted to establish the center and got former internees involved.
In addition to their memories, those who spent time here contributed artifacts and photographs.
Higuchi walks from a life-size image of her parents as adolescents at the camp to a more recent photo taken at an annual reunion. Several generations of internees and their families smile as they stand atop Heart Mountain.
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