August 16, 2004
According to the Yakima Valley Museum, this picture shows a soldier guarding a Japanese-American family during the period when families were being moved from their homes to relocation camps throughout the country.
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Curriculum developed detailing how Americans were forced from their homes and locked away in concentration camps
When Kara Kondo was a young girl she was taken from her home, forced to give up nearly all of her possessions and was escorted to a train by armed soldiers for a long trek to a concentration camp she would call home.