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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence

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To: Roger Schelling who wrote (3285)	9/16/2001 4:22:20 PM
From: Roger Schelling	Read Replies (1) of 27666

Other Japanese-Americans sought to serve their country in spite of the injustice of the camps. "Treat us like Americans," said the Japanese-American Citizens League. "Give us a chance to prove our loyalty." Thousands did exactly that. In Hawaii, where the government realized wholesale internment would wreck the economy, thousands of Japanese Americans volunteered for the Military Intelligence Service or the segregated all Japanese-American 100th Battalion of the U.S. Army. Yet more than 50 years later, their story remains virtually untold. Another segregated U.S. Army unit was the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. This Japanese-American unit was the most decorated for its size and length of service in American military history. Many soldiers in the 100th and 442nd had friends and family, American citizens, imprisoned at Manzanar. U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye, a member of the 442nd, gave an arm for his country in World War II and won the Distinguished Service Cross, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart. Yet on his way back to Hawaii, he walked into a barbershop in San Francisco for a haircut. The barber refused to serve him because he was a "Jap. members.aol.com

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