Former Internment Camp Gets Landmark Designation

From CBS4:

(AP) GRANADA, Colo. A weekend ceremony is planned at Camp Amache, a site on the plains of southeastern Colorado where more than 10,000 people of Japanese ancestry were interned during World War II.

The camp, 17 miles east of Lamar, included 550 buildings on 640 acres. Nothing is left but the concrete foundations of the barracks. A camp cemetery includes a memorial near the graves of 11 children who died in Camp Amache.

On Saturday, the site be formally dedicated as a National Historic Landmark by Ken Snyder, regional superintendent of the National Park Service.

"This is an important day for all -- it's a culmination of more than 20 years of work from the Japanese-American community in Denver and the town of Granada," said Derek Okubo, the son of an Amache detainee. "It's a story I hope will continue the healing process across racial and generational lines. Our desire is that we all can learn from this experience to avoid similar mistakes in the future."