A new interpretive learning center about the Japanese-American internment experience opened last week in Park County, Wyoming, at the site of a former World War II internment camp that that held nearly 11,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry between 1942 and 1945. The site was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 2006. Shirley Ann Higuchi, past president of the District of Columbia Bar Association and chair of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation that brought the center to fruition, is a University of Michigan grad. Higuchi said the purpose of the center is to preserve the historic site and interpret what occurred there for the current and future generations of Americans. Guest speakers at the opening included Norm Mineta, Alan Simpson, Irene Hirano Inouye, and Tom Brokaw. Video: Trib.com
