Jul 29, 2024
The (very affecting) Soul Consoling Tower (I-Rei Tō) at Manzanar "Relocation Center" cemetery, Manzanar, California (October 2023). I keep coming back to Manzanar — decades ago when I started looking for the camp it was harder to find, but now it's part of the NPS system — and wonder if we'll ever have the courage to officially call it (and its sibling camps) what it was, a concentration camp. I'm always struck by the contrast between the (harsh) beauty of the natural setting (so familiar to me) and the ugliness of what was done here.