日系 Nikkei Ancestry

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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