Bainbridge Island marks 80 years of healing during Day of Remembrance community event
In honor of the 80th anniversary of the Day of Remembrance, hundreds of volunteers spent Saturday morning cleaning the grounds of the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial.
The memorial leads to the Eagledale ferry dock where the first of more than 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans were forced into internment camps during World War II.
Volunteer Lillian Xie says she came to not just help clean up, but to help the community remember why the memorial was built in the first place.
"Despite how quaint and how lovely this island is, we have a history of where we forgot to stand for each other," said Xie.
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