#neverforegtexecutiveorder9066

[elsenornewyork]

Happy #memorialday 🙏🏽 Never forget the #442ndregimentalcombatteam the most decorated #USArmy #combatunit in #militaryhistory. 4,500 #JapaneseAmericans, also known as #budaheads signed up for service 2/3 were from #Hawaii, including my grandfather #RoyTsuya who was badly injured in a transport accident probably saving his life. The #442nd coined the term #goforbroke as their battle cry and participated in 8 major campaigns, most notably saving the 'lost battalion' who were cut off from #alliedforces. The #442ndrct was ordered in beyond the frontlines, loosing 400 men to save the 221 men of the #lostbattalion Most of the 442nd survivors are getting very old, my grandfather passed from old age in his 90's a few years ago, please cherish what these men sacrificed for a country that gave them 2 choices, go to jail #internmentcamps or go to war for the USA. The husband of #yurikochiyama #billkochiyama was also in the 442nd. Yuri's twin brother #peternakahara was not in the 442nd but was in the US army during WW2. Their father who was a fisherman and already in bad health (he just got home from the hospital)was arrest and 'detained'' on suspensions of being 'Japanese'(a possible threat to national security)he was interrogated w/ sleep deprivation and withheld his diabetes meds for 5 weeks, he died 12 hrs after his release and then #fdr signed #executiveorder9066 which sent the rest of Nakahara family(mother, Yuri, and brother) to #jeromearkansas #warrelocationinternmentcamp #neverforegtexecutiveorder9066 Yuri stated an internmanet camp program writing letters to the Japanese American soldiers, Bill went to visit the camp and they met and kept up a long distance relationship until the war was over and she was released, they then moved to #Harlem had 6 kids and worked for #MalcomX and #civilrights movements until her death. #asianpacificislanderheritagemonth #asianpacificamericanheritagemonth https://www.instagram.com/p/CAoF-xvlOAa/?igshid=l37fm5mwrp8j