PSRC’s Equity Advisory Committee (EAC) continued its tradition of a summer outing, where members can learn more about each other while exploring the history of social justice in the region.
This year, members of the committee visited the Japanese American Exclusion Memorial on Bainbridge Island.
The memorial was built at the site where all 276 people with Japanese heritage who resided on Bainbridge Island in early 1942, were forced on a boat and transported to American concentration camps.
EAC members were guided through the memorial by a survivor who shared what it was like to live in a concentration camp and the long-term impacts of this incarceration on the surrounding community.
It is a beautiful and somber reminder to “let it not happen again.”
