Bainbridge Island to Mark Japanese-American Wartime Internment

From the New York Times: “On Saturday, Mr. Kitamoto — along with hundreds of others, including former prisoners, their families, Bainbridge [Washington] residents and tourists — will reflect on that period, when American citizens were exiled from their homes and incarcerated, without due process, by the United States government because of their ethnicity. At a small inlet harbor, among wetlands and old cedar trees, they will dedicate a memorial wall that commemorates what the government later acknowledged was one of the most shameful episodes in its history. […] Bainbridge Island was home to the very first group of Japanese-Americans to be removed and was one of the few communities to welcome them back when the war was over. Of 277 forced off the island, 20 still live here.”