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For twenty days in May and June of 2006, we went on a road trip. We wanted to visit the sites of the War Relocation Authority Centers, ten camps that held over 120,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans from 1942 to 1946. We ended up visiting nine camps and got close to the site of the tenth, Gila River. We didn’t have enough time to go to the Temporary Assembly Centers, Justice Department Internment Camps, and Citizen Isolation Camps that also imprisoned people during the war.
We took pictures, wrote notes, and talked about what we had seen and heard. However, we haven’t really shared our thoughts with any people that might be interested in visiting some of the same places, or people who might have already been. Hopefully, this blog will let us do that.
Another idea behind this blog is that it will allow us to go about a big task one step at a time. Instead of trying to complete a book or more formal website in one go, this way we can add, subtract, revise and polish, while still providing interested readers with helpful informal information. (Since this is a blog, please do not cite it or otherwise treat it as an authoritative source).
Thank you for reading. We welcome your feedback.
John C. Turner
Andrew W. Leong