Rebecca Week 9/Week 10

Completely forgot about the blog last week, only a week off and yet I still forgot. Oh wells, I'm writing now because I feel like I just had my mind blown while doing a little internet searching/browsing about the Japanese Internment camps.
First a little background info might be helpful - before being sent to live in one of the ten relocation camps, a lot of Japanese American families in California and the rest of the West Coast were relocated to temporary detention facilities aka "assembly centers." My grandma's family lived in one in Salinas before being sent to the big camp in Arizona. Weelllll about an hour ago I stumbled across a map of all the assembly and relocation camps in the U.S. during WWII. -

I happened to notice a little dot next to Stockton, CA that represented an assembly center - Stockton, CA is my home, the place I grew up, the place I have lived since before the age of 2. Naturally I did a search for this so-called "assembly center" and found out that a camp was erected on San Joaquin County Fairgrounds. This is a place I've been to, I've walked around in, I performed the Star-Spangled Banner in my little green Girl Scouts Uniform. And I never even knew that it was a part of that history. It's not exactly relevant to my family's personal experience, I don't know any of the 4000+ Japanese Americans who were housed here in the makeshift barracks built in the middle of a racetrack, but still it absolutely blows my mind. 

A few images of the "assembly camp" that I just found online.

This is the marker outside the fairgrounds, I've never seen it but I'm on a mission to find it now!

Anywho, that's my weekly bit for the blog. And you may very well read this all again, or rather a more put together formal version of this, in my final project because well my mind is blown and I feel it's quite relevant. Have a good week everyone!