Carlene Tanigoshi Tinker tells her story to ABC News' Juju Chang.
Carlene Tanigoshi Tinker with ABC News' Juju Chang at the Amache National Historic Site, formerly the Granada Relocation Center internment camp, near Granada, Colorado.Nearly 100,000 Japanese Americans were detained by the U.S. government during World War II, deemed enemies as the U.S. fought Japan. The War Relocation Authority forcibly took men, women, and children across the country from their homes and bused them to one of ten internment camps in the Western U.S.
Carlene Tanigoshi Tinker with ABC News' Juju Chang at the Amache National Historic Site, formerly the Granada Relocation Center internment camp, near Granada, Colorado.Tinker revisited Camp Amache with ABC News' Juju Chang where she was forced to live from 1942-1945. It took her a few years to call it an incarceration camp.
Carlene Tanigoshi Tinker as a toddler, the age when she and her family were forcibly detained at the Granada Relocation Center internment camp, near Granada, Colorado.Most detainees at Amache came from California's Central Valley, including teachers, professionals, and farm workers. Despite the harsh living conditions, they cultivated flowers and vegetables. They operated shops and schools and published a newspaper.
Many detainees did more than that – they also served in uniform to defend the very country that considered them an enemy, enlisting to serve in the military. There was a 10 percent volunteer rate among detainees, among the highest of any group.
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