#japanese-american-internment

#japanese-american-internment

It stands a hair shy of five feet tall and is a bit over one-and-a-half feet wide. Made of nine interlocking pieces of gray ribbon slate, it feels as though a small push would completely wreck it. Humpty Dumpty stands on three legs, but it looks two-dimensional. It has an ovoid shape, and it juts upwards like a flat rocket ship.

The new executive order aims to erase narratives of injustice, like the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, threatening the preservation of their voices.

These signs encourage visitors to report any depictions of U.S. history that "inappropriately disparage Americans past or living" or fail to highlight the "beauty, abundance or grandeur" of the landscape.