The Senate passed a bill to make Amache, the site of a former WWII internment camp for Japanese Americans in Colorado a national historic site.
, celebrating the Senate’s passage of the bill. "Elevating Amache to a National Historic Site will preserve the survivors’ stories and ensure that history never repeats."Amache, which is less than one square mile, was one of 10 Japanese American internment facilities in California, Arizona, Wyoming, Utah, Arkansas and Colorado following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
"There were no charges of disloyalty against any of these citizens, nor was there any vehicle by which they could appeal their loss of property and personal liberty," the website states. Amache is currently a National Historic Landmark and is already listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It’s owned by the town of Granada and maintained by the Amache Preservation Society, established by John Hopper, a social studies teacher who is currently the principal of Granada High School. The society consists of volunteer students from the school.
"Senator Lee does not object to this specific historical site. He does object to any increase in the total amount of land owned by the federal government as the federal government fails to adequately care for the land already in its vast holdings," Lee’s spokesman, Lee Lonsberry, told The Associated Press last week.
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