Bush Signs Bill to Preserve Internment Camps

President George W. Bush has signed a law that will provide funding to preserve internment camps where Japanese-Americans were confined during World War II.

The program will allow the Department of Interior to grant funds for historical research and restoration work at 10 sites in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming.

The internment camps housed more than 120,000 U.S. citizens and residents of Japanese descent under an executive order by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.