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Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Boy Scouts conducting a morning flag rai . . .   (  )
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Record creator InfoField	Department of the Interior. War Relocation Authority. (02/16/1944 - 06/30/1946)
Title	Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Boy Scouts conducting a morning flag rai . . .
Description	Scope and content: The full caption for this photograph reads: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Boy Scouts conducting a morning flag raising cermony at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, where persons of Japanese ancestry, evacuated from west coast defense areas, now reside.
Date	5 June 1943 date QS:P571,+1943-06-05T00:00:00Z/11
Collection	National Archives at College Park    Native name National Archives at College Park  Parent institution National Archives and Records Administration  Location College Park , United States of America Coordinates 39° 00′ 02″ N, 76° 57′ 34″ W   Established 1994  Website www.archives.gov/college-park  Authority file : Q38945047 NAID: 10048491 institution QS:P195,Q38945047 Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S)
Record ID InfoField	This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 537165. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing. العربية ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ français ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ 한국어 ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Nederlands ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ русский ∙ slovenščina ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ 中文（简体） ∙ 中文（繁體） ∙ +/− Record group: Record Group 210: Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1941 - 1989 (National Archives Identifier: 537) Series: Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority, compiled 1942 - 1945 (National Archives Identifier: 536000) NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-210-G-B570 210-G-B570
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Scenes from the Japanest Internment Resonate Today
When the U.S. government held more than 120,000 civilians captive during World War II, it left an enduring stain on the nation.
By Ann Curry
This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine.

• In 2013 photographer Paul Kitagaki, Jr., tracked down Junzo Jake Ohara, Takeshi Motoyasu, and Edward Tetsuji Kato, who had been incarcerated as teenagers at Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming in the 1940s. They posed outside Kato’s home in Monterey Park, California, to reenact a photo taken of them as boys in 1943.
• At Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming in 1943, Boy Scouts Junzo Jake Ohara, 14, Takeshi Motoyasu, 14, and Edward Tetsuji Kato, 16, paid homage to the American flag. PHOTOGRAPH BY PAT COFFEY, NATIONAL ARCHIVES

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