Quiet Warriors

Pat Hagiwara

Mikiko Hatch-Amagai

“I feel lucky; my life was (lucky) all the way from my birth. In Alaska, I was growing up very close to each other (other Nikkei)… there was only one school, from kindergarten to high school, in one building… In wintertime, the main drag (Stedman St., Ketchikan) was a hill ...

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Art Susumi

Mikiko Hatch-Amagai

“No, I wasn’t afraid. I saw a lot of dead bodies around me during the war,” said Art Susumi, who became an undertaker at the age of 22.

Quiet Warriors

George (Ganjiro) Morihiro

Mikiko Hatch-Amagai

“It was exciting.”

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Edie Horikawa

Mikiko Hatch-Amagai

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Bob Sato

Mikiko Hatch-Amagai

“When my kids ask me what I was doing during the war, I can only say that I was a soldier,” said Robert (Bob) Sato.

Quiet Warriors

Richard Naito

Mikiko Hatch-Amagai

On February 19, 1942, two months after the Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. Almost 8,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans in the Seattle area were sent to internment camps. Among them, two thirds were American-born Nisei. Many of the young men were in two ...