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DENVER — A rose plant that was brought to the Denver Botanic Gardens from Camp Amache has bloomed for the first time.“If you count each seed that I’ve sown to be germinated, it’s millions of plants,” said Bone, associate director of horticulture at the Denver Botanic Gardens. “It’s a complete, all-consuming life obsession. I do this at home. I do this at work. I dream about it most nights."
“Amache is one of 10 concentration camps housed in the United States that were unfortunately built to incarcerate 120,000 plus Japanese and Japanese Americans, merely by the fact that they were of Japanese ancestry,” said Stacey Sagara Shigaya, executive director of the Sakura Foundation. “They were not incarcerated because they committed a crime, which is actually a crime in and of itself, basically.
“Most of the people who were in those camps are gone. My parents are gone,” said Sakura. “It's up to us to take the mantle, share their stories, and hopefully make our country realize that every citizen has rights.”“This is our first set of blooms in the last few days,” said Bone. “We're pretty excited to see it bloom.”
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