Heart Mountain wartime internment museum

Heart Mountain wartime internment museum

HEART MOUNTAIN, United States - Norman Mineta (far L), a former U.S. secretary of transportation, looks on as his fellow former internees cut a barbed wire ''ribbon'' during an opening ceremony for the Interpretive Learning Center in Heart Mountain, Wyoming, on Aug. 20, 2011. The facility tells the history of more than 14,000 Japanese-Americans who were forced to live at the camp during World War II.

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