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Interior Moves Forward with Efforts to Preserve and Interpret World War II Japanese American Internment Sites

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 22, 2012.  The Department of the Interior today announced that the National Park Service is awarding funding to help preserve and interpret the U.S. confinement sites where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were detained during World War II. The 17 grants, totaling nearly $2.9 million, are part of Interior’s ongoing efforts to capture and tell a more inclusive story of American history.

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