Japanese-American WWII Soldiers Gather to Honor a Fallen Comrade

God bless these amazing men who came from far and wide to honor Torrance, California’s only WWII Medal of Honor recipient Ted Tanouye:

Veterans ‘Go for Broke’ in honoring fallen soldier

The old soldiers gathered in the morning sun, greeting each other with hands that trembled with age, snapping pictures of a granite monument to a fallen comrade.

They were Nisei, second-generation Japanese-Americans who fought in Italy and France while their parents waited behind the barbed wire of relocation camps. They had fought alongside Ted Tanouye, the Torrance farm boy who earned a Medal of Honor in World War II

Read the whole article in the Daily Breeze.

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