The Historic Museum at Fort Missoula (Montana) is making great gains in preserving the World War II Detention Center!

Thanks to Diane S for passing this on this article from the Missoulian:

Clearing ‘dark air': Ritual cleanses Fort Missoula building's past
By CHELSI MOY of the Missoulian

Draped in a traditional Buddhist robe, Zen master Genki Takabayashi bowed his head on the porch of a building that some 65 years ago served as a place where hundreds of Japanese-American detainees were forced to prove their loyalty to this country.

That was in 1941 during World War II.

Fort Missoula's T-1 Building was transformed from what began as the post headquarters for the Immigration and Naturalization Service into office space for federal employees in recent decades. At one point it served as headquarters for undercover drug enforcement officials.
For the last two years it's been empty.

Yet, even when nobody physically occupied the inside of T-1, it was never exactly vacant.

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