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2029 Hon. Jim Costa February 16, 2012 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS, Vol. 158, Pt. 2 2029 honorary doctorate of letters from Francis Mar- Shandon Presbyterian Church and a devotee and more than 4,500 Purple Hearts. The ion University. of the humor of Robert Benchley. 442nd is forever linked to the 36th Texas Divi- Phil began reporting sports results to the Phil was married for 47 years to Virginia sion, when it rescued the ‘‘lost battalion’’ in the Charlotte Observer in junior high school and ‘‘Ginny’’ Maxwell Grose. They had one daugh- Vosges Mountains of eastern France during went on to write for the Observer during high ter, Patricia, a son-in-law, John Williams, and the fall of 1944. Japanese American troops school and college. He joined the staff fulltime two grandsons, Harrison and David Williams. were also part of the advance Allied troops after graduating from Washington and Lee, Mr. Speaker, I ask that you and my col- that liberated the Dachau concentration camp. covering sports and general news. In 1963, leagues join me in celebrating the life of Phil When the war ended and the United States after a year in New York as a writer for Broad- G. Grose. He was an individual who helped declared victory, President Harry Truman, pre- casting Magazine, Phil came to Columbia join- shape history and preserve it for future gen- sented the 442nd Regimental Combat Team ing the sports staff of The State. He went on erations. In addition, he was a great friend, not with its seventh President Unit Citation on the to become business editor and governmental only to me, but to all who knew him. He will White House lawn and aptly observed: ‘‘You affairs editor before leaving his newspaper ca- be sorely missed, but his contributions will re- have fought not only the enemy, but prejudice reer to enter the political arena. main forever. and you have won.’’ In 1968, Phil became a speechwriter for f Along with the 442nd Regimental Combat Governor Robert McNair. It was a tumultuous Team, another cohort of Japanese-Americans time in South Carolina at the height of the civil A TRIBUTE TO THE NISEI served in the Military Intelligence Service rights movement. Phil was greatly affected by SOLDIERS OF WORLD WAR II (’’MIS’’), made up of approximately 6,000 Nisei the times, and, from his role behind the soldiers attached to combat units in the Pacific scenes, began pushing for South Carolina to HON. JIM COSTA Theater. These soldiers intercepted radio break the bonds of its Jim Crow past. He con- OF CALIFORNIA transmissions, translated enemy documents, tinued those efforts when he joined the staff of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES interrogated enemy prisoners of war, volun- Governor McNair’s successor, John Carl Thursday, February 16, 2012 teered for reconnaissance and covert intel- West, as executive assistant for communica- ligence missions, and persuaded enemy com- tions and race relations. One of the first ac- Mr. COSTA. Mr. Speaker, I am joined by my batants to surrender. Eventually, some of tions he persuaded Governor West to take colleagues Mr. CARDOZA, Mr. DENHAM, Mr. these MIS soldiers went on to serve during the was to hire a young man named JAMES CLY- HONDA, Ms. MATSUI and Mr. SCHIFF, to pay post-war occupation of Japan, assisting with BURN to serve as the first African American tribute to the outstanding military service and the country’s transition to a democratic form of advisor to a sitting South Carolina governor. patriotism of the Japanese American men and government, and helping to maintain a stable The year was 1971, and since that time Phil women who served in the United States mili- relationship between Japan and the United and I were fast friends. tary during World War II. Over thirty-thousand States. Phil went on to hold other positions in state second-generation Americans of Japanese an- On October 5, 2010, the United States Con- government as deputy director of the Depart- cestry, also known as ‘‘Nisei’’ served in the gress unanimously passed Public Law 111– ment of Social Services and executive director various branches of the U.S. military while 254, the law conferring the Congressional of the State Reorganization Commission. He their families were living in barbed-wire en- Gold Medal, the nation’s highest civilian honor, was founder and executive director of the Ex- closed internment camps scattered throughout to members of the 100th Battalion, 442nd ecutive Institute that provided leadership train- remote regions of the country. Regimental Combat Team and Military Intel- ing for state government administrators, and I On February 19, 1942 President Franklin D. ligence Service. President Obama signed the was one of his first recruits and graduated Roosevelt signed Executive Order No. 9066, law, and on November 2, 2011, Members of from the Executive Institute when I was serv- essentially allowing the forcible relocation and Congress presented these medals to a num- ing as South Carolina Human Affairs Commis- internment of Japanese Americans across the ber of Nisei veterans at Emancipation Hall in sioner. United States; citizens and non-citizens alike. Washington, DC. After retiring from state government, Phil be- As a result, more than 120,000 Americans of Approximately 500 Nisei soldiers from came a senior fellow at the University of South Japanese ancestry, mainly from parts of Merced, Madera, Fresno, Kings and Tulare Carolina’s Institute for Southern Studies, Washington, Oregon, California and Arizona, Counties served in the 100th Infantry Bat- where he wrote about subjects he knew well were detained for nearly three years without talion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Mili- and about which was very passionate—the charges or trials and without the basic civil lib- tary Intelligence Service, Counter Intelligence governorships of Robert McNair and John erties guaranteed to all Americans by the Con- Corps, Women’s Army Corp and other military West. ‘‘South Carolina at the Brink: Robert stitution. units, including: McNair and the Politics of Civil Rights’’ and Prior to that, on January 19, 1942, six S. Sgt. Kazuo Komoto of Sanger (MIS), the ‘‘Looking for Utopia: The Life and Times of weeks after the Imperial Japanese Navy’s at- first Nisei Purple Heart recipient of World War John C. West’’ offered great insights into tack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans II; Sgt. Mac Nobuo Nagata of Sanger (MIS), these complicated men and the their contribu- were reclassified by the Selective Service as Legion of Merit recipient who led the 1st lin- tions to South Carolina’s rich history. He had enemy aliens, ineligible to be drafted. Subse- guist team to Southwest Pacific Command; S. recently begun work on a history of Francis quently, the U.S. Department of War chose to Sgt. Kazuo Otani of Visalia (442 RCT) and Marion University in Florence, South Carolina. activate the 100th Battalion, a racially-seg- PFC Joe Nishimoto of Caruthers (442 RCT), Phil and I had also been collaborating on my regated unit composed of Nisei volunteers recipients of the Medal of Honor and among memoir for several years. He was a member from Hawaii who passed loyalty tests to fight 24 Nisei soldiers from Central California killed of my inner circle who knew my experiences in the European Theater. This unit became in action. almost as well as I did myself. His personal in- known as the Purple Heart Battalion due to its PFC Jay Shiroyama of Laton (442 RCT), sights and his talent for writing were invalu- high casualty rate. With these Japanese- one of eight men from I Company that first able in helping me with this project. Americans setting the example, the War De- made contact with the 121 men of the 141st He was also very active in the community. partment established the 442nd Regimental Texas Regiment (Lost Battalion); PFC Tom Phil served on advisory boards of the USC Combat Team, a racially-segregated unit com- Uyeoka of Salinas (522nd Field Artillery Bat- School of Arts and Science, the Journalism posed of Nisei volunteers from confinement talion), settled in Fresno after the war, and School and School of Nursing, and on the sites. helped liberate Jews at the infamous Dachau board of visitors of Columbia College. He was The 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Concentration Camp; and S. Sgt. Mikio a president of Workshop Theater and worked which came to include the 100th Infantry Bat- Uchiyama of Fowler (MIS and CIC), an attor- in numerous Midlands United Way campaigns. talion, spearheaded numerous battles, fought ney during the war crimes trials in Japan, who He served four years as the South Carolina valiantly and courageously and is widely re- later became the first Asian-American judge in representative on the Southern Growth Poli- garded as the most decorated unit in Amer- Fresno County. cies Board and the Council on State Govern- ican history for its size and length of service, On February 19, 2012, the Central Cali- ments. He was a member of the Kosmos with seven Presidential Unit Citations, 21 Med- fornia District Council of the Japanese Amer- Club, a former board member of the Caesar’s als of Honor, 29 Distinguished Service ican Citizens League, the oldest and largest Head Community Center, a member of Crosses, 560 Silver Stars, 4,000 Bronze Stars Asian American civil rights organization in VerDate Sep 11 2014 11:55 Mar 21, 2017 Jkt 019102 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 0689 Sfmt 9920 E:\BR12\E16FE2.000 E16FE2 rmajette on DSK2TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD 2030 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS, Vol. 158, Pt. 2 February 16, 2012 America, with the support of the Clovis Vet- RECOGNIZING HARRY A. BARTEE, operations to the underserved areas of erans Memorial District, Veterans of Foreign SR., FOR HIS DEDICATION TO Tchula, Lexington, and Goodman, Mississippi.
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