Biden signs bill making former internment camp a national historic site

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: The Hill

President Biden on Friday signed a bill that designates an internment camp where Japanese Americans were held during World War II as a national historic site.

Biden signed bipartisan legislation adding the ​​Amache site in Colorado to the National Park System on Friday, according to an Interior Department statement.

More than 10,000 people, most of whom were U.S. citizens, were detained at the camp from 1942 through 1945. It was also known as the Granada Relocation Center and was one of ten sites where Japanese Americans were held during the war.

Today, the site includes a cemetery, a monument and reconstructed and rehabilitated structures from when it was an internment camp.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-signs-bill-making-former-internment-camp-a-national-historic-site/ar-AAVeKV0

[Demovictory9]

1. I was only aware of the calif camps. Will read up on this one

[DenaliDemocrat]

8. I've been there

It’s very very far out in the plains

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. I missed having a real POTUS who cares about people

[Deuxcents]

3. Me, too. With everything on his plate..

He can do more than one thing at a time..good things, at that.

[electric_blue68]

4. Definitely this!

[babylonsister]

5. Good. History isn't there for hiding. nt

[DENVERPOPS]

6. AWESOME

Thank you YMBL for reporting on this!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In Colorado we have shamefully watched this bit of history for some time.
We are glad that it has finally been awarded this status............Nice Job Biden...........

[Hekate]

7. Thank you, Mr President. History contains some uncomfortable facts, which it is important to know

[DENVERPOPS]

11. Exactly, and this is one of them

The Republicans want to rewrite much of their "inconvenient" history, or block it out.

We have several monuments here in Colorado, finally showing our ancestors as having massacred Native Americans during their genocide of the true owners of this land. Men, women, children and babies. This new group of "Republicans" may be through with history, but history is not through with them...........their recent treatment of Blacks, all other minorities, Native Americans, anyone that disagrees with them, and any and all immigrants, is absolutely despicable.........

[jcgoldie]

9. Remembering history even the parts we are not proud of...

Never more important than now with states passing legislation to outlaw teaching the horrors of slavery and even with the war in Ukraine. There was a poster here on DU only a couple of weeks ago advocating rounding up and deporting Russian Americans!

[ripcord]

10. I've been to Manaznar and Tulelake

My mom had friends who were forced into concentration camps during WW2 including a couple that were transferred to Camp Tulelake which held dissidents who refused to calmly accept the racism. I'm going to make a point to visit Amache.

[ZellyCabMem]

12. Big F Off to Mike Lee

He held up the bill in the Senate.

[Marcuse]

13. Perhaps history damages his self esteem.

[ZellyCabMem]

14. I Doubt It

He just wants the camps back in working order.