Mon Apr 26, 9:40 AM ET - Chicago Tribune
Hundreds of former Japanese-Americans who had been held in the World War II internment camps gathered at Manzanar over the weekend for the first public look at an interpretive center that tells the bitter story of their or their forbears' imprisonment.
Manzanar, a square-mile plot sandwiched between the ramparts of the Sierra Nevada and the Inyo Mountains, is the only one of the 10 relocation camps to have such an exhibit.
From 1942 to 1945 it housed 10,000 people of Japanese heritage who were deemed suspects following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. None was convicted of espionage or sabotage.