Manzinar National Monument Cemetary
Oct 16, 2019 01:39:25 #
11 image panorama stitched in Lightroom. Minor exposure adjustments. The inscription on the monument reads: Monument to console the souls of the dead. The pano gives the sense of isolation that the 12,000 inmates must have felt. The fence around the cemetery is a boundary that I cannot cross out of respect.
Oct 16, 2019 11:55:55 #
I noticed a couple of other smaller memorials...
I had too look up what was this memorial...
Here is Wikipedia description...
Manzanar is best known as the site of one of ten American concentration camps, where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II from December 1942 to 1945.
I had too look up what was this memorial...
Here is Wikipedia description...
Manzanar is best known as the site of one of ten American concentration camps, where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II from December 1942 to 1945.
Oct 16, 2019 12:37:07 #
Oct 17, 2019 11:40:55 #
This is a very important place in American history. Too bad it and the lessons it should have taught are forgotten. Thanks for posting.
Oct 17, 2019 20:10:10 #
abc1234 wrote:
This is a very important place in American history. Too bad it and the lessons it should have taught are forgotten. Thanks for posting.
Not too many folks alive today have any knowledge of the logical reasoning behind this action that was taken - Little if not nothing is mentioned of the fanatical dedication to the Emperor and homeland of the Japanese - The incarceration of the 120,000 kept 1,000s from doing sabotage and such to hinder our war effort - In '56 I found three of my fellow co workers in the produce depts of the chain of markets I worked for near the San Francisco area were Japanese men who had been interned and had joined the army to defend this country and help defeat Japan - much was shared of the many they knew who needed to be kept locked up. Much has been said about breaking the Japanese "code" in truth there was no "Code" at the start of WW2 there were fewer than 200 people - non-Japanese- outside Japan who could read & write Japanese - these volunteers from the internment camps helped immensely in our victories in the Pacific war as the messages were in full fact not code
Yes - much was not handled right but many lives were saved - more people died in the fire bombing of Tokyo than from the A bomb
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