Conquering the Divide by Teresa Watanabe

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Article: Conquering the Divide
Writer: Teresa Watanabe
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1. Executive Order 9066 was President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s order to round up 120,000 Japanese Americans in desolate camps scattered across deserts and swampland.
2. The internment camp that Tokuji Yoshihashi was held in was in Gila River, Arizona.
3. Tokuji Yoshihashi left camp in 1944.
4. Tokuji Yoshihashi served in U.S. Army’s celebrated 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team.
5. Yes the unit was segregated, the members in the unit were second-generation Japanese Americans.
6. This unit was known as the “Nisei.”
7. President Harry S. Truman, “you fought not only the enemy, but you fought prejudice-and you won.”
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11. Sumiko Set Seki’s internment camp is located in Jerome, Arkansas.
12. Don Seki lost his arm to German machine-gun fire on the Vosges Mountains of France.
13. 800 soldiers died from the 442nd Regimental Combat team.
14. The 442nd Regimental Combat team saved 211 lives.
15. The 442nd Regimental Combat team was from Texas.
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17. Mitchell T. Maki is president of the Go For Broke National Education Center.