Congress votes to spend $38 million to restore ten World War Two internment camps

[NNN0LHI]

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CAPITOL HILL - Internment camps where Japanese-Americans were kept behind barbed wire during World War Two will be preserved under a measure passed on Capitol Hill today.

As one of its last acts, the Republican-led Congress today sent President Bush legislation establishing a $38 million program of National Park Service grants. snip

The forced removal of Japanese-Americans was ordered by President Franklin Roosevelt two months after Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

The camps held thousands of West Coast residents who were deemed a security risk because they had at least one-sixteenth Japanese ancestry.

[Tommy_J]

1. Its good we never forget that injustice

But I can't help harboring some suspicion the camps are being restored so they can be used again.
Is that paranoid?

[NNN0LHI]

2. Lets put it this way

If I were at least one-sixteenth Iraqi or Iranian ancestry I might be a little nervous.

Don

[Bandit]

3. $38,000,000.00 to restore internment camps

Paleaze talk about frivolous spending.....$38,000,000.00... What my community could do with millions of dollars.....

[valerief]

4. Most of the money will be skimmed before it reaches the camps. nt