Japanese Americans were jailed in a desert. Survivors worry a wind farm will overshadow the past.

JEROME, Idaho (AP)– Behind the barbed cord, the little child pushed his ink-covered forefinger onto the mint-green leave card. And a picture was broken of his anxious face.

Paul Tomita was 4.

It was July 4, 1943. Independence Day at Minidoka, a camp in the substantial Idaho desert, where over 13,000 Japanese American males, females and youngsters were jailed throughout World War II as protection threats due to their origins.

The wallet-sized paper suggested the terrified child in the picture can leave after 11 months living in a confined barracks with his daddy, mom, 2 siblings and grandma.

Eight years later on, he returned with West Coast explorers that assume the life-altering wrong must be born in mind. But currently one more federal government choice impends as a brand-new hazard– a wind task the explorers worry will damage the experience they intend to maintain.

If …