DescriptionHeart Mountain Boy Scout Flag Raising retouched 2.jpg	English: 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
Source	National Archives ARC Record Group:210
Author	Pat Coffey, War Relocation Authority. Department of Interior.
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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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