A detention center that interred Japanese Americans during World War II, once called Jigoku Dani, or Hell Valley, will become a National Monument.
According to a scoop by Michael A Memoli, "President Obama will designate the plot of land in western Oahu that was the site of the Honouliuli camp as a national monument…"
"The designation is intended to bring greater awareness to it and to Hawaii's distinct role in the World War II-era incarceration of Japanese Americans and what the White House calls 'the fragility of civil rights during times of conflict.'"
President Obama will announce the decision 73 years to the day after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order to send Japanese Americans to internment camps during World War II.
The designation for Honouliuli comes shortly after the Obama Administration announced that it would designate the historic neighborhood of Pullman in Chicago as a National Monument.
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