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The state celebrated the 125th anniversary of Japanese immigration to Hawaii at Iolani Palace on 6/05/2010.

Jake Shimabukuro playing his new song for the veterans of Go For Broke at the the 125th Anniversary of Kanyaku Imin honoring all American’s of Japanese Ancestry and WWII Veterans at the Iolani Palace June 5, 2010.

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Michele Bachmann is alleging that census taking will lead to “Internment” camps! 

What does Michele Bachmann know about these concentration camps?  If she would spend more time fighting for the civil rights of all American’s these things wouldn’t happen, yet she and her conservative base are spreading lies about the census takers.  If conservatives would fight for civil rights instead of working hard to target sellect groups of people like the LGBT community for one, internment camps like these wouldn’t happen, but they are working hard across America targeting LGBT people because of their personal religious views.

If internment camps come back it will not be because a guy was taking a census note, it will come back because the civil right’s of American’s and Californian’s were taken away by a vote of these religious people.

Check out documentary about the Japanese being taken away to these “internment” camps.  My grandfather came home to an anvil, and that’s what was left, it must have been to heavy for people to carry off.  We still have that anvil.

Manzanar: “Never Again” Released – Video by Ken Burns

Manzanar: “Never Again,” a short film by critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, has been released by WETA-TV (Public Television in Washington, DC) and Florentine Films. The mini-documentary is one of five such films produced by WETA and Florentine Films as part of their Untold Stories project. [see video here]

Manzanar: “Never Again” was shown at a preview screening at the Beverly and Jim Rogers Museum of Lone Pine Film History in Lone Pine, California on April 24, 2009. It was also screened at the Manzanar At Dusk program on April 25, 2009, following the 40th Manzanar Pilgrimage, held earlier that day at the Manzanar National Historic Site.

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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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