Paul Tomita poses for a portrait in a historic barracks at Minidoka National Historic Site, Saturday, July 8, 2023, in Jerome, Idaho. Tomita, who had asthma as an infant, says the constant desert dust that seeped even into the barracks repeatedly sent him to the camp hospital. "Dust on your face, dust in your ears, dust up your nose, dust in your mouth," he remembers. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
November 9, 2023
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Japanese Americans were jailed in a desert. Survivors worry a wind farm will overshadow the past.
Roughly 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were taken from their homes and incarcerated in camps as a potential threat against the U.S.