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Thread #167223   Message #4030932
Posted By: Joe Offer
29-Jan-20 - 05:29 AM
Thread Name: Japanese Internment Songs - WWII
Subject: RE: Japanese Internment Songs
I found a brief clip of Laura Love's Fences (When I Was Young) [click] - but I couldn't find the album or song on Spotify.

Not a song, but I gotta recommend the novel When the Emperor Was Divine, which tells the story of a young girl interned at the Topaz camp in Utah. It's such a powerful story. It was our "One Book, One Community" book a few years ago, and it was so good. When we were in Utah a couple years ago, I had to stop at the museum that commemorated the nearby camp. There's nothing at the camp anymore, so I didn't go there.

The Manzanar camp is near the California entrance to Death Valley, and the National Park Service has done a good job of making the camp into a memorial to the people who were interned. If you're going to Death Valley, plan to spend a couple hours at Manzanar. It's a desolate place, but it has an absolutely beautiful view of Mount Whitney - a place of internment so close to a place of such beauty.

-Joe-