World War II Vet Dies After Casting His Last Ballot, Had Been in Internment Camps

From the October 25, 2012, Yahoo! News, AP by Aubrey McAvoy.

Frank Tanabe, 93,  died peacefully in the Honolulu home of his daughter where he had been under hospice care the last several weeks with inoperable cancer.

He filled out an absentee ballot with the help of his daughter.  During the war, hes erved in the mostly Japanese-American unit of Military Intelligence Service, (MIS) primarily interrogating Japanese prisoners in India and China.  He had volunteered for military duty from an internment camp.  He had been held at the camps in Tule Lake, California, and Minidoka in Idaho.

he had recently received the Congressional Gold Medal which had been awarded to all Japanese-Americans who had served in the MIS, the 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Teams.

--GreGen