WORLD WAR II--TULE LAKE INTERNMENT CAMP AND POW CAMP

[cjlisa153]

I was there last October and amazed to find that 10000 Japanese were interred there. I believe it was one of the last to close. The land is sparse and one of the few bldgs there is the prison. We were told that they hold a reunion just about every year for those Japanese families.  I can't imagine what that would be like to be imprisoned based on my ethnic affiliation.

[Jarathe]

My grandfather was Charles Palmerlee. He was a teacher here and was able to get footage of what life was like inside out to the public.

[p47koji]

My dad and other family members were imprisoned there. He later volunteered for the US Army after the war and was assigned to their Military Intelligence Service.

[Robtseward]

Wish Bush would have done the same thing for Crystal City and the other INS Run Internment Camps, Ft. Lincoln, Fort Stanton, Seagoville, Camp Forrester, Camp Kennedy, Kamiah, Algiers, Missoula, Sand Island,and the others I can't think of at the moment

[Iichyaa]

My great grandpa and grandma were sent to live there in Tule Lake.

[facmptr]

5 sars I liked it

[Robtseward]

Pity that Bush didn't do the same thing for Crystal City. That internment camp housed Japanese Americans, German Americans Italian Americans and people from Latin America from all three ethnicities. Look at the documentary on you tube

[loakjoe]

On December 5, 2008, President Bush signed an executive order designating the Tule Lake Japanese Internment Camp, including the former CCC camp (WWII POW camp), as part of the new World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument.

[facmptr]

So it will be preserved?I think it should and have a marker telling what it is.Back i the 80's there was a article in theKlamath paper obout Zula from Star Trek,H e was in tha that place.

[Robtseward]

Wish Bush would have done the same thing for Crystal City and the other INS Run Internment Camps, Ft. Lincoln, Fort Stanton, Seagoville, Camp Forrester, Camp Kennedy, Kamiah, Algiers, Missoula, Sand Island,and the others I can't think of at the moment

[rikaraka]

I used to live in Tulelake and Newel and Klamath Falls. I loved it. could you drive around tulelake and video it for me? My sister is a teacher at the high school. Mrs.Haluosek. id love to see more vids of that lovely place. I loved all of the history I was surrounded by. I grew up there until the 4th grade when i moved to oregon. Only been back once.

[Luddseven]

Very helpful. Thank you.