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Farewell to Manzanar
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- About half a mile in we spotted a white obelisk gleaming in the distance and marking a subtle line where the plain begins gradually to slope upward into the alluvial fan that becomes the base of the mountains.†
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- The black Japanese script cut into the white face of the obelisk read simply, "A Memorial to the Dead."†
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- The obelisk—built in 1943—and the gatehouses are all that have survived intact from internment days.†
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Definitions:
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(obelisk) a stone pillar with a pyramidal top erected as a monument to remember a person or event
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, obelisk references a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote. The character looks a little like a dagger or cross. (See Wikipedia - Obelisk (typography) for pictures.)