Fort Sill National Cemetery

Sue Ogrocki/AP) Record numbers of unaccompanied children from Central America have crossed the border in recent months. So many that the Office of Refugee Resettlement has been scrambling to find housing for them. Earlier this month the agency announced it has chosen a military base as a temporary shelter: Fort Sill in Oklahoma, which was used during World War II as an internment camp for Japanese Americans and Japanese immigrants. Before that, it was the longtime prison for Apache leader Geronimo. [HHS to house thousands of unaccompanied minor migrants on military bases and at Texas facility] The Trump administration has been under fire for its treatment of migrant children, drawing comparisons to the U.S. government’s internment of Japanese Americans and Japanese immigrants in the 1940s. Yale historian Joanne Freeman said on Twitter: “It feels as though history can’t yell any louder than this.” On Saturday, the Los Angeles Times reported, a small group of Japanese internment camp survivors protested outside the gates of Fort Sill. “We are here today to protest the repetition of history,” declared 75-year-old Satsuki Ina. She was among two dozen former internees and their descendants protesting the Trump administration plan to house 1,400 migrant children at the base, the Times said. Satsuki Ina (right) and other Japanese Americans who were held in an internment camp as a child, hold photos of themselves, during a protest Saturday at Fort Sill.(J Pat Carter/Getty Images) This isn’t the first time that Fort Sill has been used this way, though. During the Obama presidency, unaccompanied children were housed there for four months. At the time, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R) blamed Obama’s “failed immigration policies," saying, “It is alarming to have 1,200 children in a military Installation.” In fact, Fort Sill has a long history of holding children. It was established in 1869 for U.S. soldiers fighting Native Americans. In 1894, eight years after Apache leader Geronimo had surrende...

Fort Sill National Cemetery’s Memorial Day observance will start at 10 a.m. Guest speaker will be United States Marine Corps veteran Bruce Dwyer.The Comanche Indian Veterans Association (CIVA) will honor many Numunu warriors who have served their country and fallen, both in wartime and after, during its 43rd annual Memorial Day Ceremony at 11 a.m. The event will take place at Watchetaker Hall and the CIVA Court of Honor, both located at the Comanche Nation Tribal Complex, 9 miles north of Lawton. The public is invited.

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