Re: Where are all the Hillbilly War Heroes ???


"Gary" <not@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 15:30:06 -0800, "Lawrence Akutagawa"
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"Gary" <not@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:15:35 -0800, Rita <Rita@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:28:49 -0800, "Lawrence Akutagawa"
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"Rita" <Rita@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 16:49:25 -0800, "Lawrence Akutagawa"
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If you want, start instead from the home page
http://www.ajawarvets.org/
The denouement, of course, is if you had taken the time to click on
that link I provided. But you didn't.
Click "Enter"
Then off on the left, click on "World War II"
On the subsequent page, click "World War II Veterans' Registry"

Lawrence, I posted that I found all three of the Hawaiian soldiers
I knew during World War II.

I decided to look further and put their names into Google. Two
are deceased but one is not and he had a career as a prominent
attorney (he was a law student when he enlisted) and has written
a book. I just ordered a copy of the book to make sure it is
the same person, but his photo appeared and it did seem to be
him. He has been involved in veteran's affairs to keep the legacy
of these Hawaiian units alive.

He was one of the soldiers who were studying at Fort Snelling.
The other became a college professor and I found references to
him also on the web, to a book he had written and a memorial
scholarship in his name.

Both these young men did exceedingly well in life.

After I receive the book and am sure the author is the person I
knew I will try to find his Email and write to him.

All that was a long time ago -- in the early 1940s.

My immediate thoughts are that these young men must have made a very
favorable impression for you to have remembered their names over the
years.
If you really want to contact him and email doesn't work out, try his
publisher for his snail mail address. And given his participation in
veterans' affairs, the relevant website may help as well.

I got the book in the mail today. It is "Riding the Kona Wind" by
Francis Sogi.

I immediately flipped through to see if there was any mention of
my family. And there were two references:

Speaking of his time training in the Military Intelligence Service
(MIS) at army camps in Minnesota, he writes:

People from Hawaii are good at making friends and good at networking.
Ralph Miwa's brother (our friend from the 100th Infantry Battalion)
had friends in La Cross, Wis., the Nelson family. We paid them many
visits.

The Nelsons were MY family.

Also:

Ralph Miwa and I were very close in the MIS, spending many furloughs
and weekends together to visit Chicago and the Wylies and Nelsons
in Racine and La Crosse, Wisconsin.

(The Wylies were best friends of my family -- as close as relatives).

I will Email the publisher and ask that my Email be passed on to
Francis Sogi. I was sorry to learn that both Ronald Miwa of the
100th and Ralph Miwa, his brother are deceased.

But then Francis was born in 1923

In the book he talks about the Japanese-American unit he was
in being well accepted and treated by the people near the army
bases in Minnesota. Local people sponsored dances and such
with students from the University of Minnesota and he said he
did not experience discrimination until he and Ralph visited
a club in Chicago and were refused service. Then later in the
South he ran into Jim Crow.

Let me see if I got this straight. The folks who attacked Pearl
Harbor are concerned about Jim Crow ? Oh, tsk, tsk.

c'mon Gary - get your head on straight when you write stuff like that.
Rita
is talking about the guys in the 100th Battalion and the 442nd Infantry
Regiment. You'd know that if you were paying attention, which clearly you
were not.

I never heard of them. I suppose I missed the earlier part of this
thread because Rita's post is the first I read. It sounded to me
like she was talking about some Japanese men circa 1940s. If memory
serves, there was some unpleasantness involving those folk about
that time.

yup - you done dood it again: put that foot of yours in that large orifice
on the front of your face just below your nose and above your chin. It is
truly and wonderously amazing that you are so willing to talk about
something without understanding at all that about which you talk. At times
like this you do remind me however vaguely of Jerry Okamura and/or Alvin
Toda. As I said, "Rita is talking about the guys in the 100th Battalion and
the 442nd Infantry Regiment. You'd know that if you were paying attention,
which clearly you were not." The denouement, of course, is if you had taken
the time to click on that link I provided. (It's still there, at the very
beginning of the remnants of this thread.) Then you would have clearly seen
that the topic here is a unit in the American military, not one in the
Japanese military. But you didn't. In fact, even a casual reading of
Rita's posting right here will reveal references like "all three of the
Hawaiian soldiers I knew during World War II," "the Military Intelligence
Service (MIS) at army camps in Minnesota," "Ralph Miwa's brother (our
friend from the 100th Infantry Battalion)," and "the Japanese-American unit
he was in being well accepted and treated by the people near the army bases
in Minnesota." Go look for yourself - those references are still right
there in this very response of mine, as they were in Rita's post to which
you responded. Go see. So how is it that you make the connection between
such references and "The folks who attacked Pearl Harbor?" Maybe -
perhaps - just possibly - you have the same reading comprehension handicap
that Jerry Okamura has?

But having said what you've said, let's see some hard, cold facts
from you - you know...links/citations/references...that kind of stuff -
that
substantiate what you've just said.

What did I say that needs substantiation ? It sounded to me like she
was maligning the South ... again.

Why no more than that oh so sarcastic remark of yours - "The folks who
attacked Pearl Harbor are concerned about Jim Crow ? Oh, tsk, tsk." So do
substantiate, pretty please, how it is that "The folks who attacked Pearl
Harbor are concerned about Jim Crow" such that you make this wonderously
remarkable statement. Of course, a reading comprehension handicap on your
part is a perfectly acceptable explanation, as it was for Jerry.

On the other hand, if you are just
blowing smoke and carrying on a rant not capable of being substantiated,
then...well...just say so.

No offense intended. Sometimes Rita wanders, and I'm not always
sure what she's up to.

Well, you do know, don't you, that keeping well shut that large orifice on
the front of your face below your nose and above your chin until you indeed
know that about which you talk can go a long way to not making any kind of
offense - intended or otherwise.


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