Rosalie Santine Gould was away at college and blissfully unaware that an area near her hometown was being used to house a Japanese internment camp during World War II.
Even the people who were living near the camps did not know what was happening, says Gould, who has made up for that lack of knowledge many times over in the years since.
Japanese Americans were relocated to internment camps around the country, under an executive order issued by then President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as part of an effort to "curb potential Japanese espionage."
Two of the 10 such internment camps in the United States were in Arkansas -- Rohwer and Jerome.
"Nobody really knew who the Japanese were or why they were here," says Gould, who will turn 99 on July 17.
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