Ribbon cutting at Bainbridge Island monument
Friday, August 5, 2011
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. (AP) -- A ribbon cutting ceremony Saturday at Bainbridge Island marks the second phase of the development of a monument that marks the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
It's a 276-foot long wall -- one foot for each of the islanders who were interned.
The Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce reports (http://bit.ly/rflq1l) the first phase of the memorial included walkways and a passenger drop-off area. Future phases will include an interpretive center and a pier at the site of the former dock where soldiers loaded residents on a ferry in 1942.
The Bainbridge Island memorial is a satellite of the Minidoka National Historic Site in Idaho.
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