Honor Memorial Day

While you are out enjoying this Memorial Day. Take a minute to say thanks to those that fell to allow us to enjoy our freedoms.
Thanks Dad and all the other members of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team!
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442nd RCIT History
"All of us can't stay in the [internment] camps until the end of the war. Some of us have to go to the front. Our record on the battlefield will determine when you will return and how you will be treated. I don't know if I'll make it back."
Technical Sergeant Abraham Ohama, Company "F", 442nd RCT, Killed in Action 10/20/1944

"They were superb! That word correctly describes it: superb!
They took terrific casualties. They showed rare courage and tremendous fighting spirit. Not too much can be said of the performance of those battalions in Europe and everybody wanted them...."
General George C. Marshall

"...I had the honor to command the men of the 442nd Combat Team. You fought magnificently in the field of battle and wrote brilliant chapters in the military history of our country. They demonstrated conclusively the loyalty and valor of our American citizens of Japanese ancestry in combat."
General Mark W. Clark

"...I cannot say, however, that their "Go For Broke" service has ever been adequately honored, but I do know that any objective appraisal of the record of this unit will place it high up in the annals of our military history...
Whether in France, Italy or elsewhere, I know of no units in the American Army that fought and persevered more gallantly than did those Nisei companies and battalions."
John J. McCloy, Assistant Secretary of War

"The Nisei troops are among the best in the United States Army and the respect and the appreciation due honorable, loyal, and courageous soldiers should be their's rather than the scorn and ridicule they have been receiving from some thoughtless and uninformed citizens and veterans."
Major General E.M. Almond

"The members of the Combat Team have made a magnificent record of which they and all Americans should be proud. This record, without a doubt, is the most important single factor in creating in this country a more understanding attitude toward the people of Japanese descent."
Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior