Flipboard Culture Desk<p>More than 10,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated at Manzanar Relocation Center, Calif., during World War II. Playing and watching baseball was one of the ways these Americans tried to retain some sense of normalcy. Dan Kwong is a longtime volunteer at Manzanar, which became a national historic site in 1992 — his late mother, Momo Nagano, was incarcerated there as a teenager. Here's the story of how he built a baseball field at the site in honor of Momo, who wrote extensively about her time at the camp in order that future generations would never forget this piece of history.</p><p>Link: <a href="https://flip.it/obdTz7" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/obdTz7</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/USHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USHistory</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/InternmentCamps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternmentCamps</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/AlienEnemiesAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlienEnemiesAct</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Baseball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Baseball</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Manzanar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Manzanar</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/JapaneseAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JapaneseAmericans</span></a></p>