To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Preserve Honouliuli!
Join with the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i to preserve Hawai‘i's longest operating World War II internment camp that imprisoned over 2,300 permanent residents and Americans of Japanese ancestry. Support Honouliuli as a national historical site or a national monument as a new unit of the national park system under the National Park Service.
Why is this important?
Let us learn from the past and never forget. In 1941, without a trial or charges of wrong-doing, over 2,300 Japanese Americans living in Hawai‘i were arrested and detained in county jails, prisons and internment camps like Honouliuli. For the past ten years, the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i has worked to preserve the historical site, document the experiences of the former internees and teach the lessons of the Japanese American internment. Honouliuli is a reminder of our civil rights and our shared responsibility to uphold the Constitution for all people, at all times.