Colorado teacher and students rebuild Japanese American prison camp piece by piece.
At its peak, Amache held more than 7,300 internees, who were confined within a single square mile by barbed wire and armed guardsAt the end of the war, the federal War Assets Administration sold Amache's buildings until all that remained were foundations and a dusty street grid. These structures got a second life on farms and in towns across southeastern Colorado and nearby parts of Kansas and Oklahoma.
But high school teacher John Hopper wanted to change all that. Hopper, who grew up in nearby Las Animas, Colorado, came to Granada to teach social studies in 1989. He'd heard about Amache growing up and then again during college at Colorado State University, but did not know much. "Once it was bulldozed over, it was out of sight, out of mind for a lot of people," Hopper said."When we started studying it, these students didn't know anything about it and they lived half a mile away."
But words can only convey so much. Efforts are now underway to reconstruct the original buildings at Amache, which became a National Historic Landmark in 2006, so that visitors can see and feel what life was like for internees.
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