Amache Survivors Preserve History through Annual Pilgrimage

GRANADA, CO-Amache internment camp opened August 27, 1942 following the signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.  One hundred twenty-six thousand Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were US citizens were forced into camps during World War II.  Located in southeastern Colorado near the small town of Granada, this was the 39th year that the people who lived and died there were remembered.  The steady winds at this year’s pilgrimage reminded those who once lived there of the prevailing windy conditions that remain in their memories of imprisonment at Amache.