Conversation

Students in my War and Holocaust course were surprised to learn that the last Japanese-American internment camps were not closed until March 1946 (seven months after Japan’s surrender).

They were doubly surprised to learn that the Guantanamo Bay detention center remains open TODAY (23 yrs after 9/11) with 30 individuals still held there without criminal charges or recourse to any legal trial.

Once erected, systems of detainment/internment can be very hard to dismantle.

#RMOL