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Nakoa Hoe

Nakoa Hoe

1st Sergeant, 100th Battalion, 442nd Regiment, U.S. Army Reserve

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It is important for us to really kind of give back and recognize our forefathers and these veterans that we stand on the shoulders of.

They sacrificed so much at a challenging time when their loyalty to their country was questioned and they even had family members imprisoned.

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The long road to recognition for Japanese American WWII soldiers

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Active duty

In December 1941, seven University of Hawaii students were weeks away from becoming Army officers. Then Pearl Harbor was bombed, and the U.S. government stripped them of their military status and branded them 'enemy aliens.' They volunteered anyway, joined the most decorated unit in American military history, and died fighting Nazis in Europe. Eighty years later, the Army finally granted them the rank they would have earned—if not for wartime discrimination against Japanese Americans.

Updated Jan 28