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JAVA Advocate--December 2007 Japanese American Veterans Association JAVA ADVOCATE December 2007 Volume XV—Issue 4 Inside this issue: 100th-442nd Receive Audie Murphy Award President’s Message 2 On November 10, 2007, the American JAVA Leadership Veterans Center (AVC) presented its Audie Murphy Award 3 prestigious Audie Murphy Award to nd Joint Education Program the 442 Regimental Combat Team (RCT). On behalf of the members of News from Other Veterans 4 this combat unit, four 442nd veterans Service Organizations accepted the award from James C. Rob- erts, founder and president of the AVC, Annual Nisei Vets Reunion 5 at the AVC’s 10th Annual Conference and Awards Banquet attended by 500 JAVA Veterans Day Program 6 people at the Renaissance Hotel in Kuwayama Honored by Washington, DC. The 442nd RCT veter- Bar Association ans were George Joe Sakato, Co E Medal of Honor (MOH) recipient from Above: 442nd veterans receive Audie Murphy Award. L- Documentary on Kuroki 7 R: Joe Ichiuji, Kelly Kuwayama, James C. Roberts, Joe Denver, Colorado; Yeiichi Kelly Ku- JA Nisei Veterans Recog- Sakato, Terry Shima. Photo courtesy of AVC. nized in DC Events wayama; Co E, Joe Ichiuji, 522nd Field Artillery of the 442nd RCT; and Terry This reference to the ultimate gamble rep- Meet the Flag Officers 8 Shima, 442nd Public Relations Office. resented exactly what these Japanese Americans were doing. They were risking Satow Honored by VFW 9 The Audie Murphy Award is presented “for it all on one great effort to win big. Their A Visit to Vosges distinguished service in the United States gamble, however, was to offer their lives to prove their loyalty. The predecessor to the Oct Luncheon Highlights Military during World War II.” Murphy 10 442nd was the 100th Infantry Battalion, GFBNEC Awards Dinner was the most decorated soldier in WW II. He fought in nine campaigns and won every which fought valiantly through Italy, earn- The American Dream— 11 medal the Army had to offer including the ing tremendous respect. … For their valor, Gene Takahashi (Part 2) Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service courage and loyalty to country, all of the Letter to JAVA Cross, two Silver Stars and three Purple men who served in the 100th-442nd Regi- Hearts. mental Combat Team are being recognized Launch of PPALM 12 as the recipients of the American Veterans Center’s 2007 Audie Murphy Award.” The citation read, in part, “The men of the Nisei Stamp Campaign 13 442nd chose their slogan: ‘Go For Broke.’ A Sister’s Hero [continued at “Audie Murphy” on page 3] Scholarship News 14 January Luncheon JAVA Enters Joint Education Program With Public Schools Mukoyama Appointed to 15 A project intended to help high school stu- the program focuses on the 100th Battalion- Chair VA Committee dents understand the Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team and other Smithsonian APA Program wartime experience will be launched in segregated military units, including the Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Navajo Codetalkers, Tuskegee Airmen, and Taps: Bill Hosokawa 16 Wreaths at Arlington Schools (MCPS), it was announced recently Latinos who served during WWII. The one- in a joint statement by MCPS, the Go For day teacher training and orientation work- From the Editor 17 Broke National Education Center shop, scheduled on Feb. 2, 2008, in Rock- Welcome New Members (GFBNEC), National Japanese American ville, Maryland, will be the first of its kind Membership Application Memorial Foundation (NJAMF), and JAVA. for teachers on the East Coast. JAVA Contact Information 18 Upcoming Events In addition to examining the World War II [continued at “Education” on page 3 ] JAVA Scrapbook internment of persons of Japanese ancestry, PAGE 2 JAVA ADVOCATE DECEMBER 2007 ties in Maryland, Virginia, and the Dis- Wakatake, who was appointed to President’s Message trict of Columbia. We are pleased to be a member of the prestigious report that on May 17, 2008, we will American Bar Association Standing I thank JAVA mem- award three scholarships from our three Committee on Armed Forces Law bers for their strong memorial scholarship funds. JAVA has and was recently appointed Chair support in 2007, and played an active role in generating sup- of the National Asian Pacific I wish you all a pros- port for the Commemorative Nisei WW American Bar Association Military perous and success- II Postage Stamp Campaign. With the and Veterans Affairs Committee; ful 2008. Allow me oral history interviews of WW II veter- MG Antonio Taguba, USA (Ret), to deviate from the ans virtually completed, we have started who received an award for out- normal quarterly our interview of post-WW II veterans. standing achievement from the message and give you a round up of Our program to digitize the Nisei WW II U.S. Citizenship and Immigration our 2007 year. We have continued to record at the National Archives and Service; and Sus Satow, 442nd vet- make great strides in 2007 in terms of Records Administration, a joint project eran and JAVA member from Sac- substantive programs and the projec- with 442nd/MIS Hawaii, is moving along ramento, California, who was fea- tion of JAVA as the leading edge of unabated. tured in Ken Burns’ THE WAR, a the Asian American veterans. 15-hour documentary on WW II. In nd I am pleased with the compliments we addition, four 442 veterans of We had a high profile public launch of have received to our quarterly newslet- JAVA received, on behalf of the the book Nisei Linguists: Japanese nd ter, JAVA ADVOCATE, now 18 months entire 442 Regimental Combat Americans in the Military Intelligence old. It contains articles designed to edu- Team, the Audie Murphy award Service During WW II on March 30, cate the public on Japanese American from the American Veterans Cen- 2007, at Capitol Hill that was well- issues and to convey relevant news to ter; and MG James Mukoyama, attended by officials of the legislative Asian American veterans and their USAR (Ret), was appointed by the and executive branches, diplomats families. Editor MAJ Kay Wakatake, Secretary of Veterans Affairs to be and veterans service organizations. who is assigned to Germany, has done a Chairman of the Committee on On Memorial Day weekend (A) JACL superior job. I wish to congratulate Minority Veterans. and JAVA jointly held a program at COL Renita Menyhert, USA, for her Arlington Cemetery that included the series of 9 articles in 2006 on Japanese placement of flowers at 59 gravesites American veterans which won in 2007 and the laying of the wreath at the the US Army Keith L. Ware Award and Tomb of the Unknown, and (B) JAVA the DOD-wide Thomas Jefferson marched in the Memorial Day Parade Award. I wish to also thank the Depart- down Constitution Avenue sponsored Officers ment of Veterans Affairs for producing a by the American Veterans Center. On Robert Nakamoto, President 29-minute DVD, The Face Behind of the Veterans Day weekend JAVA (A) par- CDR Calvin Shintani, USNR (Ret) File: Japanese Americans, a story of the ticipated in the Veterans Administra- Vice President Japanese American experience which tion sponsored program at the Arling- MAJ Kim Luoma, USAFR, Secretary has been shown extensively in the ex- ton National Cemetery amphitheater LTC Earl Takeguchi, USA (Ret) Treasurer ecutive departments and is now being from which the Vice President ad- shown in high schools. dressed the nation, and (B) held its 7th Executive Council Annual Veterans Day Program jointly Above Officers plus: Some of our members who received rec- with the National Japanese American Grant Ichikawa ognition during the past year include six Memorial Foundation (NJAMF) at COL Sunao Phil Ishio, USA (Ret) the National Japanese American Me- JAVA veterans who were honored at a BG Bert Mizusawa, USAR morial to Patriotism. JAVA and 15 White House ceremony during the Asia Calvin Ninomiya other Japanese American veterans Pacific American Heritage program organizations were recognized by the when President George Bush recounted Terry Shima, Executive Director Go For Broke National Education the military contributions made by MAJ Kay Wakatake, USA Center which presented the Go For Japanese Americans; JAVA Honorary Lt Col Michael Yaguchi, USAF (Ret), Broke Spirit Award at its Evening of Chair Norman Mineta, former Secretary Deputy Executive Director Aloha Dinner on November 10 at Ana- of Transportation, who received the Gerald Yamada, General Counsel heim. 1,400 people attended. Japanese Government’s Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun; Califor- Honorary Chairs nia Superior Court Judge Vincent Oka- JAVA has concluded an agreement Senator Daniel K. Akaka, U.S. Senate moto, who was inducted into the Ranger with the Montgomery County Public Senator Daniel K. Inouye, U.S. Senate Hall of Fame in Fort Benning, Georgia; Schools (MCPS), NJAMF, and Go For COL Sunao Phil Ishio, USA (Ret) Shinkichi Tajiri, 442nd veteran, who Broke National Education Center to The Honorable Norman Y. Mineta sculptured four “sentinels” for a bridge enhance the teaching of the Japanese in The Netherlands and was appointed American experience during WW II in to the highest order of “knighthood” by JAVA ADVOCATE 29 MCPS high schools. This is a pilot the Queen of the Netherlands; MAJ Kay Akio Konoshima, Editor Emeritus project for adaptation in other coun- MAJ Kay Wakatake, USA, Editor PAGE 3 JAVA ADVOCATE DECEMBER 2007 Education (from page 1) Teachers from other local area schools will also be invited to the workshop, which is viewed as a pilot activity for adoption in other counties, as desired. Created in 1998 by the GFBNEC in collabo- ration with curriculum specialists Esther Taira and Mark Elinson, the program re- ceived its initial funding from the Califor- Meeting at Montgomery County Public School.
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