Quiet Warriors

George (Ganjiro) Morihiro

Mikiko Amagai

“It was exciting.”

Quiet Warriors

Edie Horikawa

Mikiko Amagai

Quiet Warriors

Bob Sato

Mikiko 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 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 groups: …