The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
What most people don’t realize is that a large number of Japanese were in Hawaii because their royalty had “sold” them to the pineapple companies as indentured servants.. there was no love lost by them for the empire...
A fact I didn't remember, until I watched the film again and researched the history more deeply, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team was, and remains, the most decorated unit in US military history...Individually, and as a unit, the 442nd earned over 18,000 awards in under two years of fighting service...That number takes on added significance considering their fighting strength was never more than 4,000 men, but including replacements for fallen soldiers, more than 14,000 men served in the 442nd during that time...Their combined decorations included 9,486 Purple Hearts, 21 Medals of Honor and 8 Presidential Unit Citations (five of which were earned in the same month)...
When the Army decided to form the unit, they called for 1,500 Americans of Japanese ancestry as volunteers from Hawaii...They got 10,000...All members were made honorary Texans in 1962 by Gov. John Connally in recognition of their actions in the relief of the "Lost Battalion" cut off from the 36th Texas Division and surrounded by Germans...Racial inequality had no place there, and none in the America of today......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...