History is rhyming like a motherfcker these days. From Time:

Fort Sill, an 150-year-old installation once used as an internment camp for Japanese-Americans during World War II, has been selected to detain 1,400 children until they can be given to an adult relative, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The agency said Fort Sill will be used “as a temporary emergency influx shelter” to help ease the burden on the government as it prepares to house a record number of minors even though it already operates about 168 facilities and programs in 23 states...
Fort Sill, located southwest of Oklahoma City, was one of several internment camps where Japanese-Americans were held during World War II. Between 1942 and 1946, the U.S. government forcibly removed an estimated 120,000 men, women and children from their homes and incarcerated them across the country. Fort Sill was later used to hold German prisoners of war.

Back in 2014, the Obama administration placed migrant children at Fort Sill, but they were there for only four months and, of course, under the Obama policy, no children died. But this tone-deaf administration already has a body count, and its policy is purely designed to frighten already terrified people from seeking asylum in this country, so it's no surprise that it's raising the ghosts in these places again. It's awful, but it's no surprise.

Update (12:30 p.m.): Several shebeen regulars have pointed out that there are older ghosts at Fort Sill than those of the Japanese who were held there during World War II. From 1886 to 1914, it was the place where some of the last Apache warriors were held. Geronimo is buried there.

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Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976. He lives near Boston and has three children.