| January 8, 2003 |
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Life Interrupted
The  Japanese-American internment camps set up during WWII are a shameful part of our country's history, but this handsome Flash site aims to focus on the way Japanese-Americans tried to peacefully carry on with lives that were so abruptly torn apart and transplanted. Instead of placing blame, it focuses on two little-known camps that operated in southeastern Arkansas from 1942-44 and the efforts of local historians and families to preserve artifacts from that era. Set up to resemble an aging scrapbook, the site features photographs of detainees in a variety of settings, as well as reference materials such as area maps, detailed timelines, related articles, and upcoming memorial events. Of the 120,000 Japanese-Americans relocated from the West Coast and Hawaii during WWII, 16,000 were interned in Rohwer and Jerome, Arkansas -- racially segregated hotbeds. Amazingly, you'll find more smiles than sad stories here. If we are to learn from our past, we could stand to take a page out of the book of these brave Americans. (in World War II) |
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