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(KSL News) -- Sixty years ago, the U-S Government closed the Topaz internment camp near Delta, Utah.
Now Japanese Americans throughout the West Coast are meeting there to commemorate that event.
During World War Two, more than 100-thousand ethnic Japanese were sent to the camps, including Topaz.
This weekend, a monument will be dedicated to honor Japanese American Veterans of World War Two.
Though it's now closed, he U-S Congress has passed a bill to preserve sites like Topaz.
