On August 6, 1945 — 79 years ago today — the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, essentially closing a chapter that had opened when Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. On February 16, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted Executive Order 9066, which allowed the removal and relocation of Americans of German, Italian and Japanese descent, out of fear that they would help the enemy…
Colorado WWII Internment Camp for Japanese Americans at Amache
