Readers respond: Wind project threatens a sacred site for Japanese Americans

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Readers respond: Wind project threatens a sacred site for Japanese Americans

In 1944, my mother died in the Minidoka prison camp near Jerome, Idaho. She was 35 years old, and I was only 1. Her death is one of countless painful memories of the forced removal and imprisonment of 13,000 Japanese Americans, including me and my family, from Oregon, Washington and Alaska during World War II.