Bainbridge Memorial Earns Congressional Approval
Bainbridge Memorial Earns Congressional Approval By Tristan Baurick The Bainbridge Island Japanese-American memorial is only a signature away from designation in the national park system. The U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday to make the Nidoto Nai Yoni memorial on Eagle Harbor a satellite of the Minidoka Internment National Monument in southern Idaho. Passed by the Senate earlier this month, the island memorial now awaits the signature and final approval of President Bush. "This will serve as a monument to all Americans of all future generations that we should never ever allow the power of fear overcome the power of liberty," Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Bainbridge, said shortly before final passage. The memorial marks the place where 227 Japanese-Americans were marched to the Eagledale ferry dock and shipped off to internment camps in rural Idaho and California's Mojave Desert for much of World War II. The island's Japanese-Americans — two-thirds of whom were citizens — were the first of what eventually grew to almost 13,000 Washington state residents incarcerated without trial. Clique Iniciar Sessão ou Registar-se para colocar comentários
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