Behind barbed wire, 4-year-old Paul Tomita pressed his ink-covered index finger onto a mint-green exit card, his ticket to leave the cramped barracks he had occupied for 11 months with his father, mother, two sisters and grandmother. It was July 4, 1943. Independence Day at Minidoka, a camp in the vast Idaho desert, where over 13,000 Japanese American men, women and children were incarcerated during World War II as security risks because of their ancestry. Eight decades later, Tomita returned with West Coast pilgrims who think the life-changing atrocity should be remembered. But now another government decision looms as a new threat — a wind project the pilgrims worry will destroy the experience they want to preserve. If approved by the Bureau of Land Management, the Lava Ridge Wind Farm would put up 400 turbines on 118 square miles near Minidoka, where survivors say they are witnessing another attempt to bury the past. Read more at the link in bio. 📷️ Lindsey Wasson / @apnews