The Children Of Heart Mountain

Death, Sex & Money

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Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

At an annual pilgrimage back to a former Japanese American incarceration site, we hear from people reliving complicated childhood memories, and descendants looking for answers. For more about Japanese American incarceration and the language we use to talk about it now, check out this episode from the NPR podcast Code Switch, called "America's Concentration Camps?" Sign up for our newsletter at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter, and every Wednesday we'll send you podcast listening recommendations, listener letters from our inbox and updates from the show. Follow our show on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @deathsexmoney. Got a story to share? Email us any time at [email protected]. Support Death, Sex & Money today at deathsexmoney.org/donate.

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0:00.0	Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor, we were at war, and what was happening to us was sort of the fallout.
0:09.0	This is death,
0:13.0	death, sex, and money.
0:15.0	How do you live your life?
0:17.0	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.
0:20.0	You're going to get in here and give me a kiss.
0:22.0	And need to talk about more.
0:24.0	Money can't buy happiness.
0:26.0	I'm Aniseo.
0:30.0	Esther Aabe was the first former incarceri I met at Heart Mountain last summer.
0:38.0	She's in her 80s now and hadn't seen this place since World War II when she was a young girl. You know I haven't
0:45.0	met back here since we used to live here. Here is where Esther and her family were
0:50.2	once held under guard of military police by the US government because they were
0:55.1	Japanese American.
0:57.1	It's just off the highway about 13 miles outside of Cody, Wyoming, between farms and sagebrush-covered fields.
1:04.1	On the horizon is a mountain with two rounded peaks,
1:07.6	Hart Mountain.
1:08.9	We just accidentally found our website
1:11.3	and we had like three weeks notice that we had to you know pack up
1:16.8	for this vacation but we found out there having a pill of homage. This gathering
1:22.2	is part reunion and part witnessing. Esther traveled with her
1:26.3	grown son and daughter to show them where she was forced to relocate as a girl
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