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Onetime internment camp in Catalina Mountains offers lesson in history
Sentence yourself to an hour or so in a onetime internment camp in the Catalina Mountains and you might come away with increased respect for those who bravely stand up to injustice.
The brave soul in this case was a Japanese American named Gordon Hirabayashi.
A senior at the University of Washington in 1942, Hirabayashi challenged the relocation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. He was convicted of violating a curfew imposed on Japanese Americans and sentenced to the Catalina Federal Honor Camp — a long-closed work camp that now stands in ruin a short way from the Catalina Highway.
Today, visitors can wander among the camp ruins and learn its history from a series of information panels.
http://tucson.com/news/local/onetime-internment-camp-in-catalina-mountains-offers-lesson-in-history/article_e47342af-56b3-578a-b466-c6644502584f.html
