Manzanar War Relocation Center

INDEPENDENCE, CA, March 19, 2008: The cemetery at Manzanar, one of ten remote War Relocation Centers in the United States where 11,000 Japanese were sent beginning in early 1942 during World War II, stands as the most preserved part of Manzanar. Fifteen of the 150 people who died at Manzanar were buried there with six burial sites remaining. Not trusting those with cultural ties to Japan who had bombed Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Government enclosed a one square mile, remote area in the Eastern Sierra mountains with barbed wire and erected a mini city complete with churches, barracks, mess halls, hospitals and even baseball fields. A cemetery and graves still adorn the property which is now a National Historic Site.

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INDEPENDENCE, CA, March 19, 2008: The cemetery at Manzanar, one of ten remote War Relocation Centers in the United States where 11,000 Japanese were sent beginning in early 1942 during World War II, stands as the most preserved part of Manzanar. Fifteen of the 150 people who died at Manzanar were buried there with six burial sites remaining. Not trusting those with cultural ties to Japan who had bombed Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Government enclosed a one square mile, remote area in the Eastern Sierra mountains with barbed wire and erected a mini city complete with churches, barracks, mess halls, hospitals and even baseball fields. A cemetery and graves still adorn the property which is now a National Historic Site.