U.S. Breaks Ground on WWII Memorial

The U.S. broke ground on a national memorial in Washington to atone for the imprisonment of tens of thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II. The memorial, which will take about a year to build, will occupy a prime location in a small triangular park about 600 yards north of the Capitol. Some 120,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned from 1942 to 1944 because of their ancestry. The memorial will feature a curving marble wall bearing the names of 800 of the Japanese Americans killed in the fighting the war as well as the names of the 10 detention centers.