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PACIFIC CITIZEN, May 19-JUNE 1, 2006 · . JSiNt' iiil. ti4 •• tAU"Ui Spring Campaign Itching to Write? Be a Wall of Famer! Hey Batter, Batter! If you think you've got the tal­ Donate $150 or more Baseball 'camp' takes on a whole towards P.G.'s Web site new meaning in "'Day of ent and ambition then apply for the P.C. internship. and get recognized. Independence.' COUPON PAGE 2 Q&A Wlm THE FILMAKERS PAGE 9 HOW TO APPLY PAGE 2 Since 1~9~2~9;========~~~~ !!!I!!!!~~===========~===~= The NCWNP district is the site for this year's Nat'l JACL ~CIFIC golf toumament so dust off CITIZEN those clubs! T.he National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League 'SB 1615 is an essential move by the state of Cal ifomia to ,Two Heroes, Two Wars - A Lifetime of Memories respond to and recognize its growing mixed heritage population. ' - Megan Emiko Scott, Swirl, Inc. Multiple Choices: Identifying With More Than One Race California is poised to collected from the forms she fills Toke Yoshihashi (left) as a b~ome out. But she often wonders, why young man in the OOth the first-state to i can't she choose to identity with Battalion and today as a Go allow mixed race persons to both her Asian and White ancestry? For Broke docent. check more than one race box OIi government forms. The answer may come in the form of Senate Bill 1615, "'The Robert Nakamoto (bottom) Ethnic Heritage Respect and split time between music, By CAROLINE AOYAGI-STOM Recognition Act," proposed by Sen. family and liberating Iraq. Executive Editor Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, that will allow all mixed race Californians When Megan Emiko Scott, 25, Time chilnges, but war stays the the option to check more than one same. The pain ofloss and the acts fills out government forms in her home state of California, she's race box when filling out official of heroism carry on from one gen­ government forms. passed, forced to make a decision 7 million If eration to the next. For Memorial California would become the first of her fellow mixed race individuals Day, the Facific Citizen inter­ state to follow in the footsteps of a must make: which one race catego­ viewed two veterans --..: one Nisei, similar bill passed by the federal the other Yonsei -from two differ­ ry is she going to"choose - White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native " government in 1997. ent wars. Here, they shilre their "SB 1615 is an essential move by stories and remembrances with American or Other? .In Scott's case it's a choice the state of California to respond to you in their own words, as narrat- and recognize its growing mixed ed to Lynda Lin. between Asian or White and more often she chooses Asian since she knows a lot of government data is See 58 161?JPage 6 TOKE YOSHIHASHI, 83 Entered the service April 1944 100th/442nd back to Washington, at21 D.C. and _we marched down Carving Out the Omaha School Served 21/2 years with 100th Constitution Avenue. President Battalion, A company , Truman was there and he pinned System Along Racial Lines another unit citation on the flag. Kaneko. Since they changed offi­ Three new school districts We were the Yoshihashis from cers on us - we didn't know him On the Gothic Line Pasadena. he didn't know us - the 2nd phi~ for three different ethnic The objective for the 100th - I went [into the service] first , toon leader offered to go on the line communities. Critics call and we were the spearheads - was because we were the first group of for us and let us go in reserve. the legislation to divide the to capture Georgia Hill. The 3rd Japanese out of Gila River. My We were along the path and we public school system a set­ Battalion was on our right. We brother went into the service a didn't dare go too much off of the back in race relations while would see them climbing the higher month after I did. He ti-ain~d in path to go into the ravines and stuff residents weigh:-in on dis- - mountain. Camp Shelby ' and I trained in because they were all mined. They They had to hike all night where­ cussion of a 'learning com­ Camp Blandlng, Horida. would bring back wounded. as we didn't start out on April 5, munity.' It was nice to at least get out of Nobody wants to die, but we 1945, until 3:30 or4 o'clock [in the camp life. were there to fight. moming]. We just hiked up and got By LYNDA LIN We didn't have a choice where We would catch a lot of shells AsSistant Editor into position. we were going to go. We knew we too. The same moming, along the Then at 5 o'clock the artillery OMAHA'S CENTRAL HIGH ScHOOL were going to the 442nd. which path there was this big overhang­ At the end of her freshman year, came and that's when we started. was strictly infantry. Nowadays, ing rock. A couple of my buddies Kimberly Nguyen, 16, transferred Luckily I was in the 1st platoon. school." the guys have a choice - they can , were there. I'm over here in the from Burke High, a mostly white The night before we were going to Central High's largest minority go into the Navy, the Marines, the hole and I crossed the path and school located near the western bor­ go out to hit the line, they pulled group is African American, accord­ Air Force. In those days, we didn't went over to talk to them and der of the Omaha Public School wh~ back our platoon sergeant and pla­ ing to school data. Nguyen, is have a choice. We just ended up in wouldn't you know it a big shell District (OPS), to Central High on toon leader. They were replaced by Vietnamese American, made the the infantry. came and hit the top of that big the lower east side. When she told a fellow named Kusaka, who came decision because of academics, I was real proud when we came her friends, most were puzzled why out of the 2nd platoon, ,and Ken ' VETSlPage 12 back. We brought the colors of the See she would choose to go to a "black See OPSlPage 6 Phoenix J<jsing: Leadership For a New Discovering Your JA Roots generation JAs today are turning to It's a dilemma many JAs find ilieir ancestral home. Often, the the Internet and fellow themselves in today, especially younger generations like the Sansei community members to since the experiences of the intern­ and Yonsei become the driving learn the tricks and tips of ment camps left many Issei and See JA ROOTS/Page 4 tracing one's family Nisei reluctant to maintain ties with genealogy. By CAROLINE AOYAGI-STOM A MEMORABLE Vlsrr­ Executive Editor Julie Kawaye (left) and Jennifer Reven (cen­ JACL National Convention Most Japanese Americans today ter) visit the family June 21-24,2006 know, often very well, who their cemetery in Tsuta, Chandler, Arizona Ojiichan and Obaachan are but how Hiroshima prefecture about your great-grandfather and with their Japanese great-grandmother? Add more relative Goro Kato. 4 "greats" and you'll likely be lost in WEEIiS a world of unknowns. LEITERS/SPRING CAMPAIGN PACIFIC CITIZEN, MAy 19-JUNE 1, 2006 ?' PAQAC CITIZEN ~ SPRING CAMPAIGN 2005 WINNERI !,: ~~ u ~ Editor GMEORIA Be ·the Decider and lR,.. :.. ...... :.' :' .", '. '. : ..... :.. ...... .. ,.. ... ..... .. ... '. ' .. " . :. ~ Awards In Writing .A Shosuke Sasaki, leagues may be beginning to feel Make the Pie Higher embattled, with the GOP in some By CASEY CIHNA While you are "working hard to a Man of Convictions disarray and the president they PACIFIC CITIZEN and ANDY UEHARA put food on your family," every lit­ It was with nostalgia that I read in helped to elect standing so low in tle bit counts. As individual Spring the Pacific Citizen the excellent col­ the polls, we should be extra careful 250 E. First Street, Ste. 301, "I think we all agree, the past is Campaign contributors, we should Los Angeles, CA. 90012 wnn "Use of 'Jap' in Print is Slowly about making statements that may over." While they will not complete­ be shouting, "I am a pitbull on the Tel: 213/620-1767, Diminishing After 50 Years" by sound partisan to such members . • ly go away, pantleg of 800/966-6157 Hany K Honda. It brought back Fax: 213/620-1768 printed news- opportunity. " E-mail: [email protected] papers are For we are tak­ many memories of very fine, dedi­ ~~ www.pacificcitizen.org beconnng a ing aggressive cated people whom I have had the Lake Washington Chapter thing. of the bites into the privilege of knowing such as: Executive Editor: past. These opportunities Sandra Tanamachi of Texas; the late o Caroline Y. Aoyagi-Stom Shosuke Sasaki of New York City - Assistant Editor: days, informa­ that the Lynda Lin tion is most Internet pro- and Seattle; Woodrow Asai and A Disturbing Direction quickly and vides! Everett james Starr of New York; Office Manager: Some or the recent articles, posi­ Brian Tanaka widely distrib- CASEY CHINA ANDY UEHARA Also, what George Yuzawa and Moonray Circulation: Eva Lau-Tin'g uted via the better way is Kojhna also of New York. All of tions and associations with other Internet. That's why we need your there to "Knock down the tollbooth" them campaigned very strongly organizations attributed to national ' Publisher:Japanese American JACL are disturbing and the current Citizens League (founded 1929) contribution to this year's Spring to accessing the P.
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