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Go For Broke: Remembering My Own Japanese American War Hero
One dark night when I was living alone in my twenties, my mother phoned me at one a.m. to tell me t…
Susan Kiyo Ito • Dec. 18, 2015
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Enlisting to escape internment: A Japanese American's story
Jimmy Makino sat in an internment camp in mid-1940s Arizona. Among a room of other Japanese America…
Connie K. Ho • July 30, 2013
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Placer JACL Honor Nisei WWII Veteran Recipients of the Congressional Gold Medal
Talk given at the Placer County Ceremony Honoring Japanese American Veteran Recipients of the Congr…
James Iso • April 11, 2013
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TOMI-TALK: The Character of the Nisei Soldier
My name is Delia Tomino Nakayama and I wrote the English column “Tomi-Talk” for San Francisco Japan…
Delia Tomino Nakayama • March 14, 2013
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Akira Horiuchi: A Reluctant Hero's Journey to the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony - Part 2
Read Part 1 >>Akira Horiuchi was born and raised in Southern California. In the pre-war years, his …
Patricia Wakida • April 30, 2012
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Akira Horiuchi: A Reluctant Hero's Journey to the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony - Part 1
To be drafted by the Government, to serve your country in time of war under such conditions that ex…
Patricia Wakida • April 23, 2012
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Congressional Gold Medal Moment To Share
On November 2, 2011, the long awaited Congressional Gold Medal (CGM) presentation to hundreds of Ja…
Rio Imamura • April 9, 2012
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A Historic Time for Our Community: Celebrating The Congressional Gold Medal
On a rainy Washington DC day in July 1946, President Harry S. Truman presented the Presidential Uni…
Sharon Yamato • Nov. 2, 2011
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