Grant signed to preserve WWII camps
President Bush signed into law a $38-million grant program to preserve notorious internment camps where Japanese Americans were kept behind barbed wire during World War II.
The money will be administered by the National Park Service to restore and pay for research at 10 camps.
The law is intended to help preserve the camps as reminders of how the United States turned on 120,000 of its citizens in a time of fear.
The sites named in the legislation are in California, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Idaho.
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