A Day Trip to Poulsbo, WA and a visit to the Bainbridge Island Japanese-American Exclusion Memorial
We made a stop nearby at the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial. The sign for this is small, but the memorial is well worth a visit. It honors the Japanese-Americans who were forced into internment camps by the U.S. government during WWII. Bainbridge Island was home to a large farming community with many Nisei Japanese-Americans. They had to leave everything and were forced onto a ferry and eventually kept in a detention center in Utah. There are some positive stories in all this that show that individuals can behave better than their government: a farmer bought his neighbor's land at auction and then sold it back to him for $1 when he returned from detention.
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