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Japanese-Americans Remember Internment

In February 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order that allowed the government to imprison Americans of Japanese descent in internment camps. This week marks a time of remembrance of those camps.

KUNC’s Rae Ellen Bichell (@raelnb) takes us to one former site in Colorado.

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