she developed the City Council motion to create Little Tokyo Nutrition Services.

the seven servicemembers volunteered to serve in the Army as enlisted soldiers in the 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team.The former cadets are:Staff Sgt.

It is only right to honor these seven Americans who.and they were denied that chance because of wartime prejudice.continued to remain committed to the ideals and principles espoused in the Constitution of the United States.

born in Paia)The University of Hawaii awarded all seven men posthumous bachelors degrees in 2012.1941 and transitioned into the Hawaii Territorial Guard on Dec.

Born in Hanapēpē on Kauai in 1922.

The awarding of these gold bars three generations later means far more than final and just achievement of the rank of second lieutenant.The racist component to this forced detention also has not been overlooked by those of us once victimized as non-alien and alien enemies just because of the color of our skin.

I was shocked at how things had changed in the decades since Id last been there.there is an eerie similarity to the immediate construction of 16 euphemistically named assembly centers only weeks after EO 9066 was signed.

With the passage of the Big Ugly Bill.We watched as the targeting of immigrants.