Proposed Wind Energy Site Stirs Bitter Memories For Japanese Americans
regularly are aware of the pushback from various special interest groups over where wind and solar energy installations should be sited. Rex Tillerson, former US secretary of state and former CEO of ExxonMobil, once sued to prevent wind turbines from being installed on a distant mountain ridge where they could be seen from the back porch of his palatial home.
To understand their concern means taking a journey back in time to when Minidoka was filled with internees. Multiple survivors and their supporters say the turbines would destroy the feeling of desolation that is integral to how they remember the internment period. Mary Abo and her family were among those held at Minidoka. She and her elder sister, Alice, waited 50 years before revisiting because the memories were just too painful, but when they eventually did, the experience was empowering. “It’s good to see we weren’t broken people,” says Abo, now 82. “So it was good to go and feel how it was and to know we survived.”
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