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Memory, history and healing. Construction of the camp at Heart Mountain, the fourth largest relocation center in the U S, began on 15 June 1942. (Heart Mountain can’t technically be called an “internment camp” because internment refers to a lawful …

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Heart Mountain heartless. On Monday, 8 December 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt went before a joint session of Congress to seek a declaration of war. In his address, he called 7 December 1941, the day of the Japanese attack on …

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I arrived in Jackson late in the afternoon of 2 September and, as you saw in the photos I posted previously, while my first views of the Tetons were impressive, they were breathtaking mainly because the ash laden air complicated …