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What a great story!  I don’t get to hear the story’s like this to often. 

“A Friendship With Heros” is about two sisters who’s father Sgt Bill Hardwich was rescued by Nisei of the 442nd at Vosges Mountains in France when a group of soldiers, “Lost Battalion,” became stranded.  The Hardwick sisters wanted to thank the Nisei soldiers because it’s what their father had been wanting to do, but he never had the chance and many years later his dreams came true through his daughters. 

I learned about the 442nd almost 20 years ago when I was doing some research on the camps Japanese American’s where taken to.  My own father never spoke about the war, and I had an Army patch that belonged to dad, but I didn’t know anything about it.  It wasn’t until his death that I learned from my brother that he was in the 442nd, but I don’t know the details of any campaigns other than some names written on a DD-214.

I hope more information gets documented, so the rest of us could learn the true history of what happened during those years.

Read the full story of the Hardwick Sisters at Pacific Citizen Newspaper

More about 442nd at Go For Broke National Education Center

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I’m appalled this has happened!

We have U.S. Soldiers fighting a war against alleged “terrorists,” yet they’re here in our own back yard, and have been here for a long time.  The Department of Homeland Security, DHS, needs to do more to protect all American’s within the U.S. and monitor these right wing terrorist groups, so that this doesn’t happen again.

The constitution should be enough to protect all citizens against this hate, so please defend our constitutions from those who wish to change it.

Japanese American Citizens League Website
Members of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) are dismayed and appalled at the shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Museum which resulted in the death of a courageous museum security guard.

[Click here for the pdf; JACL response]

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I will be moving the forum and database to http://forum.nikkeiancestry.com over the next few day’s.

So, it may be a little bumpy, hopefully not! Also, this Wordpress blog http://news.nikkeiancestry.com/wordpress/ will be moving to http://nikkeiancestry.com

Actually, I’ve already moved the forum with it’s database, so you can go their now.

Everything should be working. The main domain name, nikkeiancestry.com, will have a Wordpress blog [This one}, and there will also be a link to the forum from the blog. This will help bring more interested genealogist or interested people to participate in the forum.

If anyone speaks and writes Japanese and wouldn't mind helping some genealogists in translating some documents in the forum [peer to peer support group], that would greatly help, and be appreciated.

So, the two domain names are:

http://nikkeiancestry.com [Nikkei Ancestry Wordpress Blog] This blog!

http://forum.nikkeiancestry.com [Nikkei Ancestry Forum]

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This exhibit has already taken place, but the artist is looking for exhibitors in the US.  It’s a scroll painted over a period of about 14 years by a Japanese artist Rakushi Hojo, and depicts the Japanese American history of Hawaii and the mainland.

Interested in Japanese-American heritage? See the amazing scrolls in Yokohama on June 5.
日系移民歴史にご興味? 横浜文化体育会館にて６月５日(金)一日のみの展示会が開催されます。お一人の夢はカタチにする１４年間かかった作品です。是非、お立ち寄りください

The World’s Longest Picture Scroll depicting Japanese American History on Exhibit in Yokohama, Japan – Free-Press-Release.com

United States of America (Press Release) May 5, 2009 — Japanese artist seeks exhibitors in the U.S. to exhibit the world’s longest picture scroll , which will be on exhibit for the first time to the public on June 5, 2009, at Yokohama Bunka Taiikukan as a part of 150th Anniversary of the Port of Yokohama.

The scroll, painted on specialized local “Washi (Japanese)” papers, is 34-volume, 620-meter long with 1069 frames containing 120,000 people, with scenes spanning from the 13th Century to present.

For contact information please see link.

[read more about the world's longest scroll ]

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Meanwhile, please stop by the 日系 Nikkei Ancestry: Japanese Genealogy Research Forum.

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