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Don Barrett (aka DBs travels) club

Posted: 31 Dec 2008

Taken: 01 Jul 2005

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Manzanar Internment Camp cemetery 2551a

Manzanar Internment Camp cemetery 2551a
Manzanar Cemetery in the summer.

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 Diane Putnam
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Very moving place. The Tulelake internment camp is near where I live and I've been there. Almost no markings or remnants left. It's a shame there isn't more effort to mark these important places.
8 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Diane Putnam club
I agree, I've been very disheartened by how much we've tried to hide the past. But I've recently come to the realization that the start of the Cold War so soon after the end of WWII had an effect on so much of American public discourse. There was a strong need to wipe the slate clean so as to gain Germany and Japan on our side for the Cold War, so the country just wiped away history at that time. In the process we just buried so much history that is only in recent years beginning to be retrieved and revived.
8 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to Don Barrett (aka DBs… club
I hadn't thought about that aspect at all, Don. Makes sense. I think, also, that the gov't was embarrassed (maybe not exactly ashamed) about the Japanese-American camps after seeing what the Nazis built, so wiped these off the face of the earth.
8 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Diane Putnam club
I do wonder how much any government experiences embarrassment, which requires having an ethical base, versus acts out of convenience. When I was touring European Nazi and Cold War sites last Spring, I was struck by the profound difference between how those events were presented to Americans in the 1950's, and the visible reality. It was quite enlightening to realize how very much our collective perspectives were manipulated for government/corporate needs. (Same, of course, for how we think about the American Indian wars.)
8 years ago.

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