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There have been non-fiction history books about the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, but Andrew Lam is one of the few writers to portray the heroism …
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Read Part 1 >> Playing in the ALOHA Baseball Team Concurrent with the establishment of the Hawaiian Student Society of Chicago in May 1922 was …
In the 1910s, a Nikkei visitor from Hawai‘i once wrote a newspaper column expressing his surprise in running into the sons of his Hawai‘i friends …
Read Part 3 >> It was late in the afternoon, almost five o’clock, when Dad and I dropped off Tanaka-san and Lynne, so I called …
Read Part 2 >> That Saturday, when I arrived at my parents’ house to pick up Dad, he was already sitting outside, waiting for me …
Read Part 1 >> Today, talk of his poker gang’s tanomoshi has made Dad uncharacteristically nostalgic, prompting him to reminisce about this group of seven …
Author’s note: My late Nisei father did indeed have a poker gang of his best friends who would meet monthly, always on a Saturday night, …
Read Part 2 >> Dear Grandpa, On the last leg of our trip in Italy, we went to the capital of the Tuscany region. Firenze–Florence …
Read Part 1 >> Dear Grandpa, I read that Japanese Americans in the 100th/442nd were credited with breaking through the Gothic Line in Italy. And …
Dear Grandpa, I remember you telling me a little bit about what you did in the war. I remember you saying it was depressing, that …
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