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Go For Broke: Remembering My Own Japanese American War Hero

  • By Susan Ito
  • 18 Dec 2015

One dark night when I was living alone in my twenties, my mother phoned me at one a.m. to tell me to turn on ...

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Enlisting to escape internment: A Japanese American's story

  • By Connie K. Ho
  • 30 Jul 2013

Jimmy Makino sat in an internment camp in mid-1940s Arizona. Among a room of other Japanese Americans at the Gila River Relocation Center, the Alhambra ...

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Placer JACL Honor Nisei WWII Veteran Recipients of the Congressional Gold Medal

  • By James Iso
  • 11 Apr 2013

Talk given at the Placer County Ceremony Honoring Japanese American Veteran Recipients of the Congressional Gold Medal, and Recipients of the Bronze Star, in World ...

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TOMI-TALK: The Character of the Nisei Soldier

  • By Delia Tomino Nakayama
  • 14 Mar 2013

My name is Delia Tomino Nakayama and I wrote the English column “Tomi-Talk” for San Francisco Japantown’s Hokubei Mainichi newspaper for approximately 10 years ...

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Akira Horiuchi: A Reluctant Hero's Journey to the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony - Part 2

  • By Patricia Wakida
  • 30 Apr 2012

Read Part 1 >>Akira Horiuchi was born and raised in Southern California. In the pre-war years, his father ran a small fruit stand on the ...

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Akira Horiuchi: A Reluctant Hero's Journey to the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony - Part 1

  • By Patricia Wakida
  • 23 Apr 2012

To be drafted by the Government, to serve your country in time of war under such conditions that existed at that time, incarceration of all ...

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Congressional Gold Medal Moment To Share

  • By Rio Imamura
  • 9 Apr 2012

On November 2, 2011, the long awaited Congressional Gold Medal (CGM) presentation to hundreds of Japanese-American veterans who collectively fought bravely during WW II was ...

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A Historic Time for Our Community: Celebrating The Congressional Gold Medal

  • By Sharon Yamato
  • 2 Nov 2011

On a rainy Washington DC day in July 1946, President Harry S. Truman presented the Presidential Unit Citation to members of the segregated 100th Infantry ...
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