Deaths: Decorated Japanese-American-- Part 2

Earlier this month I wrote about Kenji Yatsushiro, a member of the famed 442nd Regimet of Japanese-Americans who really made a name for themselves in World War II. /// He was born in the town of Wailuku on the Hawaiian island of Maui. His father died when he was five and he had to go to work in the sugar-cane fields where, for lunch, they'd just strip back the bark on the cane and munch on the sugar. /// On December 7, 1941, his family heard aircraft overhead which turned out to be Japanese planes on their way to attack Pearl Harbor. /// Mr. Yatsushiro was one of many "Nisei"-- second-generation Americans born to Japanese parents, who enlisted. His son said, ""Everybody suspected them of still being loyal to the emperor." This made these Nisei "deadset on proving themselves." /// --GreGen