Amache Internment Camp - a solemn place
Apr 15, 2017 11:48:20 #
Apr 15, 2017 11:53:01 #
roder10 wrote:
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.
Rowedean
Rowedean
i enjoyed this interesting historical series very much rowedean! good job, and how
beautiful the tree blooms are!
Apr 15, 2017 12:25:34 #
Apr 15, 2017 12:27:51 #
merrytexan wrote:
i enjoyed this interesting historical series very much rowedean! good job, and how
beautiful the tree blooms are!
beautiful the tree blooms are!
Thanks for visiting and I was struck by the beauty the flowering tree, as well.
Apr 15, 2017 12:41:37 #
Apr 15, 2017 12:47:34 #
phlash46 wrote:
A beautiful capture of a sad part of our history.
Thanks for visiting.
Apr 15, 2017 13:15:59 #
oregonfrank wrote:
I do not agree that it was a necesssary thing to do. We were also at war with Germany and Italy, and we did not intern German immigrants or Italian immigrants. Wonder why?
Rowedean appreciate your posting. Thanks.
Rowedean appreciate your posting. Thanks.
Because they looked like "us."
Apr 15, 2017 13:21:20 #
team 1 wrote:
We had the Japanese less than 10 miles off the wes... (show quote)
We also had u-boats right on the East Coast and German infiltrators landed on the East Coast. Only a handful of known third columnists among our many citizens of German and Italian ancestry were interned. Your method of argument reminds me very much of Trump; answer something that hasn't been said, rather than discuss what has. Nobody was talking about barring Japanese from entering our country; rather the camp was for Japanese/American CITIZENS (caps in case you missed the point) interned in violation of everything I stand for (though, perhaps, you don't).
Apr 15, 2017 13:53:14 #
roder10 wrote:
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.
Rowedean, I just looked at your photos. I took several at the concentration camps in Germany (below is one). It is difficult to capture the sense of isolation that the inhabitants must have felt at the time they were there, but you did a good job of it. (Read "Snow Falling on Cedars" to get a writer's sense of it).
BTW, that's a body cart that had to be pulled to the crematorium by prisoners even during the deepest of winter. That, too, is a rebuilt dormitory in the background.
Apr 15, 2017 14:00:01 #
mentor38 wrote:
Rowedean, I just looked at your photos. I took se... (show quote)
Thank you and I have read that book. And, thank for looking and your info. Have a good day.
Apr 15, 2017 15:13:26 #
roder10 wrote:
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.
Rowedean
Rowedean
There were never any internment camps for Germans living in the US
Apr 15, 2017 15:36:56 #
Mary Kate wrote:
There were never any internment camps for Germans living in the US
That's true, nor Italians. Only a handful of German's or Italians, mostly resident aliens (and a couple of citizens) where ever "detained" and they were known spies or collaborators; there were very few and they spent most of the war in federal prisons.
Apr 15, 2017 17:18:33 #
rick
Loc: Cape Cod, MA
Tommy II wrote:
Turn off Fox News for a while, and get a grip on reality again.
What a sad little man.
Apr 15, 2017 18:08:05 #
shangyrhee
Loc: Nashville TN to Sacramento CA
Some of us have twisted minds by saying that it is necessary to punish on the basis of skin colors, ethnic origins or religions to be absolutely sure of no chance of happening of disasters. You are saying it to justify your prejudice. If you want to be absolutely safe in this world, quit living. Let us learn from Nelson Mandela. By the way the series is very nice & poignant !!! Shang
Apr 15, 2017 23:09:45 #
rick
Loc: Cape Cod, MA
Where are you Tommy 11 you sad pathetic excuse for an American citizen? Take your pathetic, small minded, ignorant opinions elsewhere.
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