Adapted from the graphic novel We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration.

These Sansei Vietnam vets were never given a welcome home or a thank you for their service from a country that so ill-treated their families Nisei generation during World War II.the highest honor given for bravery after the Medal of Honor and the Distinguished Service Cross.

This had a deep emotional impact on the attendees.Dennis Umade; (back row) John Masaki.From left: (front row) Hideo Hirata.

Shiozakis film revealed a fact that is not widely known — 117 Sansei were killed in action and four received the Medal of Honor.000 Sansei who served in this most unpopular war that spanned from 1955 to 1975 with the height of the war in the mid-1960s.

He was awarded the Silver Star.

paying tribute to the estimated 5.but we’ve grown close as a community and neighbors who have been living on the same block for over 40 years … Organizing and staying in touch with one another over the past 15 months has created a close-knit community that now looks out for each in a way that didn’t before.

And we haven’t given up hope yet either.What difference would it make to move the cell tower a few hundred feet across the street? Please reconsider your decision.

and that’s what I intend to do.We are not against the cell tower.