Amache Internment Camp - a solemn place
Apr 14, 2017 08:19:42 #
Internment camp built during WW2 in eastern Colorado. I recently was on the highway going past and decided to stop and see this bit of history. All the buildings are gone, only concrete foundations. However, the cemetery, on that early spring day was turning green and a tree starting to bloom.
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The barracks, water tower and guard tower are copies of the originals.
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Apr 14, 2017 08:24:48 #
Interesting images. I lived in Colorado for many years and never knew this was here. 3 years is a long time to live in an internment camp! Thank you for posting :)
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Apr 14, 2017 08:40:23 #
suntouched wrote:
Interesting images. I lived in Colorado for many years and never knew this was here. 3 years is a long time to live in an internment camp! Thank you for posting :)
Thanks for looking. I drove around the whole area and it was a very flat, windy place to live. I didn't know it was there until I drove by coming home for a shoot.
Apr 14, 2017 08:41:13 #
fourg1b2006 wrote:
Wow...You visited a part of history.
Yes, a bit of history. Thanks for looking.
Apr 14, 2017 08:42:09 #
jaymatt wrote:
Interesting.
Glad you viewed Jay. It was interesting, as well as very solemn.
Apr 14, 2017 12:50:24 #
Tikva
Loc: Waukesha, WI
Thanks for posting. I'm sure that there are a large number of younger people who do not know of the shameful period in our history that this place 'remembers'. I'm glad that there is at least something there to remind people of what happened at that site.
Apr 14, 2017 17:16:58 #
Tikva wrote:
Thanks for posting. I'm sure that there are a large number of younger people who do not know of the shameful period in our history that this place 'remembers'. I'm glad that there is at least something there to remind people of what happened at that site.
My feelings exactly. I wasn't even sure if I should post these images. Now, I'm glad I did. Thanks for looking.
Apr 14, 2017 22:24:39 #
Beautifully and respectfully presented Rowedean! Hopefully this serves as a reminder of a sad and shameful situation that should never happen again.
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Apr 14, 2017 22:39:36 #
Cwilson341 wrote:
Beautifully and respectfully presented Rowedean! Hopefully this serves as a reminder of a sad and shameful situation that should never happen again.
Thank you, Carol. That's actually how I wanted this to be presented. It was a bit difficult to choose the images and words. Thanks for looking.
Apr 14, 2017 22:41:43 #
Snap Shot wrote:
Rowedean, a sad but, at the time, a necessary thing to do. 
Yes I know, Bill. I didn't know about this camp here in Colorado until just a couple weeks ago. It is a very sad place to visit. Out on the plains - almost in Kansas - hot and dry. Thanks for visiting.
Apr 15, 2017 07:09:47 #
We had the Japanese less than 10 miles off the west coast of America, and they thought about invading America.Do we know if some that were put into camps would have been spy's of fighters. The same thing we are dealing with today with the people from the middle east, if 1 out of 1000 is a terrorist, or a gang member from Mexico we lose. And that loss is too great for us to chance. Why is it OK for F D R, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton to stop some from coming to America, but not Trump ??? The reason Japan did not invade America was the hunters in America who would fight off the invading army, and Japan's leader was afraid his army would be defeated on our soil.
Apr 15, 2017 08:06:17 #
Wow - lived in Colorado for five years and never knew they had an internment camp. How sad.
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