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This 7-minute 10-second video link just came across the transom.  The video is “A Tribute to the San Diego Japanese American Veterans of the 100th Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team (RCT), and the Military Intelligence Service (MIS)—A Letter to Dad.”  It was presented at the San Diego Congressional Gold Medal luncheon held on March 11, 2012.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dI0An8ZGlM

A video presented at the Congressional Gold Medal luncheon celebration held in San Diego on 3/11/2012 expressing the thoughts and feelings of the son of a 442nd veteran.  The Congressional Gold Medal was awarded by the U.S. Congress on 10/5/2010 to the 100th Infantry Battalion, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and the Military Intelligence Service for their courage, sacrifice, and patriotism while fighting during World War II on two fronts: one front for democracy overseas and the other front was the prejudice at home in the States.


The above letter read in the video was not by me (Bob Uda).  It was narrated by the video co-director, Lane Nishikawa.  However, the paragraphs below are of my dad of our days in Hawaii during the Big War.  Pearl Harbor was attacked by Imperialist Japan on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941.  On the day that will live in infamy, I was already forming for five weeks in my mother’s womb.

Memories of Dad

Dad had lived a long, fruitful life of 89 years.  It was time for him to leave us.  Hence, I did not feel sad when he passed on but was happy that he had a long, successful life here on earth.  Here are some thoughts that my siblings and I remembered about dad in our earlier years.

I’ll Shoot You Dead!

My oldest brother, Lowell, relates these stories.  Lowell said, “Memories are a tricky thing.  Time, like water, certainly smooth and polishes each contour.”

Lived Through Five Wars.  Dad had lived through World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam Conflict, and the more recent ones leading up to the current War on Terrorism.  However, he was not a veteran.  He used to say, “I was too young for the 1st World War, and by the time the 2nd World War came along, I had too many kids.”  We had seven children in our family.  However, our father supported the 2nd World War in other ways.

Senator Daniel K. Inouye.  For many years, I was puzzled about this bit of history.  Many of the Japanese in Hawaii, of course, served in the 2nd World War, and they returned with a certain degree of glamour about them.  Uncle Ted Imamoto fought in the war in Europe.  United States Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI) had lost an arm fighting in the European Theater.

Built Bomb Shelters.  But there is a certain degree of glamour about dad that shouldn’t be lost on any of us.  As a carpenter and a foreman, he helped build bomb shelters in the schoolyards across Honolulu, Hawaii.  They built bomb shelters in schoolyards in Kakaako, Ewa, and other cities.  After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, buildings on military bases needed to be repaired or rebuilt.

In my mind’s eye, I can still see our own bomb shelter in our backyard at 1813 Young Street.  It was an oblong hump just outside the kitchen door, on the sides of which I grew a “victory garden” of round onions, Manoa lettuce, and carnations.  I can still remember the carnations.  I don’t know why I planted them, except that maybe mom liked them.

The Black-Band Boys.  During the War, my father was a member of the original “Black-band Boys.”  These were the young Japanese-American men who went into the military bases to do construction work building bomb shelters and other structures after the attack on Pearl Harbor.  They were forced to wear black armbands while they did this work just so the military police (MP) and other soldiers wouldn’t take them to be the enemy and shoot them by mistake.

Construction Foreman.  The first foreman in Dad’s work gang had a nervous breakdown because of hostile threats from understandably angry soldiers.  Dad volunteered before he was asked to take over as foreman.  So dad and his boys filed into the military bases with black bands on their arms.  He said that they walked in with clenched fists when threatened.  He told his men, “Don’t worry.  Just do your work.  Our turn will come.”

The Intimidating MP.  My father related an interesting story to us.  One day, an MP confronted him and shoved his M-1 rifle into Dad’s face and said, “If you make one wrong move, I’ll shoot you dead.”  Such incidents included the kind of threats the Japanese-American construction workers received from those angry MPs.

Loyal AJAs.  It was ironic to know later that Hawaii’s 100th Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team (RCT), on battlefields of Europe during World War II, earned 7 unit citations and 18,143 individual decorations—the most of any American unit in the war!  Americans of Japanese Ancestry (AJAs) were treated like they were enemy Japanese from Japan, yet we proved our loyalty on the European battlefields fighting and dying to preserve the red, white, and blue. [My brother’s stories end here.]

AJAs Staunchly Supported the United States.  In fact, we love our country (the USA) so much so that all of the AJAs that joined the U.S. Armed Forces and, as American soldiers, fought the Germans.  Some of those soldiers were not even American citizens yet, but they served honorably as U.S. Army soldiers.  In fact, the greatest percentage-wise of any particular group of battlefield dead and the numbers of medals won (including the Medal of Honor) were from the AJAs of the 100th Battalion and the 442nd RCT.

AJAs were Most Decorated Soldiers and Units in the U.S. Army.  These Japanese American units suffered an unprecedented casualty rate of 314 percent and received over 18,000 individual military decorations.  Many were awarded posthumously for bravery and courage in the field of battle.  Among the decorations received by the 100th/442nd soldiers were 1 Medal of Honor (since then there were up to 26 men who were upgraded to MOH winners), 52 Distinguished Service Crosses, 560 Silver Stars, 28 Oak Leaf Clusters to the Silver Star, 4,000 Bronze Stars, 1,200 Oak Leaf Clusters to the Bronze Star, and perhaps most telling of the sacrifices made by these gallant soldiers, 9,486 Purple Hearts.  The 442nd Combat Infantry group emerged as the most decorated combat unit of its size in the history of the United States Army.  For its service in eight major campaigns in Italy and France, the 100th Battalion and 442nd RCT earned eight Presidential Unit Citations.

Internment Camps.  Quasi-dictator Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) by executive order threw most of the AJAs back in the States into internment or detention camps (I call them concentration camps) right here in the good old USA.  The politically correct term is “Relocation Centers.”  No other enemy nations, peoples, or religious sects were ever treated so disgracefully before, nor since, in the USA.  The incarceration of AJAs remains as one of the saddest chapters in American history.  Yet, I love this country of ours.

AJAs Lost Everything.  Furthermore, the incarcerated AJAs in these internment/detention camps had all of their land, property, and personal belongings confiscated by the government and never returned.  To this day, the AJAs have never recovered their confiscated land, property, and personal belongings.  Yet, I love this country of ours.

Honorable Service in the USAF.  I served honorably for over eight years in the United States Air Force and would physically fight anyone who attempts to destroy this country.  This is because I love this country of ours and am very proud to be an American citizen.

Treatment of AMIs in America Today

Rightfully so, the Arabs/Muslims/Islamites (AMIs) in America today are feeling the pressure from the rest of the Americans who, generally speaking, look at them with a jaundiced eye.  If there is anyone who has a good understanding of religious prejudice, religious discrimination, and religious persecution, I do.  As a member of the Mormon faith (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), I have experienced subtle religious prejudice and discrimination throughout my life.  In the early days of the church, religious persecution was open, pronounced, rampant, blatant, and despicable.

However, today, religious prejudice is more subtle and, therefore, insidious, being similar to racial discrimination and prejudice—until Mitt Romney (also a Mormon) who most likely will become the Republican standard bearer.  Reading the despicable anti-Mormon blogs and listening and watching the religiously bigoted talking heads of the lame-stream media are appalling, and it will get worse before November 6, 2012.  I just wonder how these people would survive if they would attack and denigrate the Muslims and Islam as they do the Mormons.  I think they would be beheaded, quartered, burned, and hanged among other things.

On the other hand, the AMIs in America have not experienced anything resembling the discriminations, bias, prejudice, bigotry, and persecution experience by the following groups in American history:

  • Blacks of America– slavery, discrimination, and being indentured servants and treated as sub-humans
  • American of Japanese Ancestry (AJAs)– thrown into and incarcerated in internment, detention, concentration, or relocation camps during World War II and losing all of their land, homes, and personal belongings because of “yellow fear”
  • Native Americans (American Indians)– robbed of their lands under the guise of being bought with mere trinkets and placed in degrading Indian Reservations
  • American Chinese– worked on building the cross-country railroads for meager wages and called “Coolies,” an offensive term
  • Mormons– persecuted, killed, had their homes burned down, lands and property stolen, and run out of Missouri under an extermination order by Governor Lilburn Boggs

 AMIs Have it Easy.  Relatively speaking, the AMIs in America have it easy as did the Vietnamese, Cambodian, and other Southeast Asian (SEA) immigrants upon their mass exodus from SEA and migration to the USA following America’s loss of the Vietnam War.  The AJAs and American Chinese have established themselves well in the American society because they have not raised Hades, demonstrated, picketed, vandalized, and caused problems.  They just ran a low profile, worked hard, acquired higher education, assimilated into society, and got involved in mainstream American society.  The other Asian groups are following suit.  The East Indians from India have also done quite well because they study hard, are very smart, and work hard.

Would the AMIs do the same and serve in large numbers in the U.S. Armed Services to fight Islamo-fascist terrorist evildoers in the Global War on Terrorism (GWT) as the AJAs fought the Germans in World War II?  That has yet to be seen.  What if the AMIs in America today were thrown into the concentration camps that the Obama administration has built and is building on military bases throughout the continental United States (CONUS)?  Do you think that would stand?  I doubt it.  Of course, since President Barack Obama is so pro-Muslim and pro-Islam, that would never happen under his tenure.

However, these concentration camps have been built for some purpose.  That purpose is to incarcerate all of the right-wing conservatives, military veterans, and anyone who opposes Obama and his administration.  We must continue to be vigilant and oppose anything our current quasi-dictator is doing to work around the Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution.  Since FDR put all of my relatives and ancestors in concentration camps with simply signing a presidential executive order, he can do that tomorrow should he feel the need before November 6, 2012.  Stay awake.

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    • Dr. Bob Uda, Ph.D., CM, CHSP, ILO

      Continued from above:

      Mormons– persecuted, killed, had their homes burned down, lands and property stolen, and run out of Missouri under an extermination order by Governor Lilburn Boggs

      AMIs Have it Easy. Relatively speaking, the AMIs in America have it easy as did the Vietnamese, Cambodian, and other Southeast Asian (SEA) immigrants upon their mass exodus from SEA and migration to the USA following America’s loss of the Vietnam War. The AJAs and American Chinese have established themselves well in the American society because they have not raised Hades, demonstrated, picketed, vandalized, and caused problems. They just ran a low profile, worked hard, acquired higher education, assimilated into society, and got involved in mainstream American society. The other Asian groups are following suit. The East Indians from India have also done quite well because they study hard, are very smart, and work hard.

      Would the AMIs do the same and serve in large numbers in the U.S. Armed Services to fight Islamo-fascist terrorist evildoers in the Global War on Terrorism (GWT) as the AJAs fought the Germans in World War II? That has yet to be seen. What if the AMIs in America today were thrown into the concentration camps that the Obama administration has built and is building on military bases throughout the continental United States (CONUS)? Do you think that would stand? I doubt it. Of course, since President Barack Obama is so pro-Muslim and pro-Islam, that would never happen under his tenure.

      However, these concentration camps have been built for some purpose. That purpose is to incarcerate all of the right-wing conservatives, military veterans, and anyone who opposes Obama and his administration. We must continue to be vigilant and oppose anything our current quasi-dictator is doing to work around the Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution. Since FDR put all of my relatives and ancestors in concentration camps with simply signing a presidential executive order, he can do that tomorrow should he feel the need before November 6, 2012. Stay awake.

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