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Colorado is now home to America’s newest national park

Amache National Historic Site in southeastern Colorado is officially America’s newest national park, the National Park Service announced Thursday. Amache, located one mile outside of Granada, was one of 10 incarceration sites used to detain thousands of Japanese-Americans during World War II. The town of Granada acquired and donated the land needed to establish the site as a national park. RELATED: For Japanese Americans imprisoned at Amache internment camp, lifetimes of silence and undeserved shame “Amache’s addition to the National Park System is a reminder that a complete account of the nation’s history must include our dark chapters of injustice,” National Park Service Director Chuck Sams stated in a Thursday news release.

 

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