Historic Wintersburg

歴史 Historic Wintersburg, Huntington Beach, CA. National Treasure. America's 11 Most Endangered. Site of Conscience. 118 years of Japanese American history.

[Historic Wintersburg @WintersburgHB]

What's National Treasure #HistoricWintersburg? Read the overview on our Wikipedia page! https://t.co/iQqtTJaRkj #JapaneseAmerican #history

[Historic Wintersburg @WintersburgHB]

Rev. Terasawa and his wife, Fuku, are at rest at the Colma, California, cemetery.

[Historic Wintersburg @WintersburgHB]

Rev. Barnabus Hisayoshi Terasawa was a founder of the Wintersburg Japanese Mission, 1904, & faciliatated the land purchase #HistoricWintersburg #HuntingtonBeach #California

Cambridge-educated, multi-lingual, Terasawa was one of the first ordained Episcopalian clergy in Japan.

[Historic Wintersburg @WintersburgHB]

He was a mentor/father figure to Charles Mitsuji Furuta, teaching him English. Furuta became the first Issei baptized Christian in Orange County. Terasawa and Furuta remained close until separated by WWII incarceration. Terasawa died in Topaz & they never saw each other again.

[Historic Wintersburg @WintersburgHB]

@AlexHortonTX If possible, headline should be changed. John Aiso was a Nisei.

Aiso was the chief instructor for the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) Language School & highest-ranking Japanese American in the U.S. Army during WWII.

[Historic Wintersburg @WintersburgHB]

🧵When US Army naming commission considered renaming Fort Gordon (Confederate ties) in August, GA, Nisei John Aiso was among the candidate names.

He is connected to history of #HistoricWintersburg through his marriage to Sumi Akiyama, daughter of a Wintersburg goldfish farmer.

[Surf City Writer 歴史 @SurfCityWriter]

At top, third image from left, Japanese American John Aiso from southern California, who was a key figure in MIS and later a judge. A street in #DTLA #LittleTokyo is named after him. Like other Japanese Americans, he served during WWII while his family was incarcerated.

[Susan H. Kamei @susanhkamei]

“The Council of the City of San Diego apologizes to all people of Japanese ancestry for its past actions in support of the unjust exclusion, removal, and incarceration of Japanese Americas...during World War II..."

Via @CNN: https://t.co/inY2APxtYP

[Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @HeartMountainWY]

Japanese American incarcerees released from the camps were granted the same status of paroled convicts, according to Idaho Attorney General Bert Miller. This editorial #OTD in the Amache paper said this was ridiculous.

[Historic Wintersburg @WintersburgHB]

We learn, but there is loss in what was uprooted and taken away. Considering the other archaeological sites found surrounding Historic Wintersburg, we know who walked the land. There is always the question of what may be found when the land is disturbed and what will be done.

[Historic Wintersburg @WintersburgHB]

#IndigenousPeoplesDay
What happened to sacred burial sites in California, now erased with urbanization? Plundered for "collections."

"More than 500 people descended on the burial site, carting away 'skulls and other relics.'"
The Plunder of Buck Ranch, https://t.co/2B633SUj3S

[Historic Wintersburg @WintersburgHB]

#IndigenousPeoplesDay
The universe effigy was found w/ cogged stones, also found in Bolsa Chica wetlands. Thought to be ceremonial (no wear indicating use for other activity). Also on display at Bowers Museum.

Cole Ranch and the Universe Effigy, part 2
https://t.co/bgBEKu4SX2

[Surf City Writer 歴史 @SurfCityWriter]

#OTD 1988:
Thread, signing of Civil Liberties Act of 1988 by Pres. Ronald Reagan. Including official video of the signing & the connection with endangered #NationalTreasure .@WintersburgHB

The memorial service #GoForBroke hero cited by Pres. Reagan was at Wintersburg Mission.

[Historic Wintersburg @WintersburgHB]

@SkinnyGrunt We have similar photos of beach and park picnics here. Wonderful images. Thank you for sharing!

[Historic Wintersburg @WintersburgHB]

4/ 8:52 minute mark: The late Norman Mineta points out to President Reagan that the Masuda family is represented in the room at the signing.

Reagan greets her personally, as she remarks "I hope I'm not dreaming."

https://t.co/uzIYexAqDw

[Historic Wintersburg @WintersburgHB]

1/ "We gather today to right a grave wrong." - President Ronald Reagan

Present at the signing, the family of Kazuo Masuda & congregants of the .@WintersburgHB #HistoricWintersburg mission, including Clarence Nishizu, who had worked for the passage of the Act.

[JANM @jamuseum]

On August 10, 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, issuing a formal apology and symbolic payment of reparations to surviving Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during WWII.

In observance, JANM will be closed Wednesday, August 10, 2022.

[Historic Wintersburg @WintersburgHB]

3/ Reagan describes the heroic efforts of Staff Sgt Kazuo Masuda in Italy during WWII as a member of the Go For Broke 442nd.

"Blood that has soaked into the sands of a beach is all of one color..." - Reagan in 1945, on that day in December 1945.

https://t.co/uzIYexAqDw

[Janice Munemitsu @JaniceMunemitsu]

“How did they survive the camps?”

I don’t have a universal answer for that - trauma effects each person’s soul differently.  But I do think the @jamuseum "Sutra & Bible" exhibit shows how spiritual faith in community can build resilience in the most difficult of situations.

[Historic Wintersburg @WintersburgHB]

Endangered National Treasure #HistoricWintersburg is included in this list in the summer issue of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's .@SavingPlaces Preservation Magazine.

Threatened: Historic Wintersburg
https://t.co/eYswqDfJab