![]() ![]() established two systems of internment camps. The camp was located about 120 miles southwest of San Antonio, but remains a little-known part of the state’s wartime history.ĭuring World War II, the U.S. Why should a person read about injustices perpetrated by her country in the distant past? To honor those who suffered? To inoculate against the repetition of errors? To strip the scales from her eyes and develop a more realistic, if more jaded, picture of her government?įor any of these reasons, Americans-and particularly Texans-should read Jan Jarboe Russell’s The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II. ![]() Jan Jarboe Russell reads from The Train to Crystal City on Monday, Jan. ![]()
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