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The Nisei Narrative

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During WWII 33,000 Japanese-Americans served in Europe, the Pacific and Asia. They were the children of our local families; they were young men, many of them friends who served and died together on the distant battlefields, while their parents and families were taken by the American government and interned here at home and on the mainland. Their sacrifices must be remembered.

The Nisei soldiers who served during WWII, and subsequently came home to Hawaii, adopted the motto of “Continuing Service”, making our state the very special place it is today. Their values – Honor, Responsibility, Service, Obligation, Gratitude, Loyalty and Duty – are as relevant today as they were 75+ years ago. This series “The Nisei Narrative” will invite guests to discuss their own personal stories, the impact they have had and what we as a collective society can learn from them.

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Feb 18, 2021 03:00 PM in Hawaii

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Message preview	Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Feb 18, 2021 03:00 PM Hawaii Topic: The Nisei Narrative Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4OQr0FgMSs229rpne_Z_Sg After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers Takeshi Nakayama Takeshi Nakayama is a Los Angeles-born Nisei former writer for the Rafu Shimpo newspaper in Los Angeles. During WWII when he was a small child, his family was among 120,000-plus persons of Japanese descent forcibly exiled from the West Coast and imprisoned in American's concentration camps. His family was first detained at Santa Anita Racetrack, where the family slept in a horse stable that--according to his mother--smelled like horse manure, and then incarcerated in a concentration camp at Rohwer, Arkansas. In total, he and his family spent three-and-a-half years in captivity as "guests" of the U.S. government. He attended public schools in L.A. and is a graduate of Cal State Los Angeles. Nakayama is now retired but does some freelance writing for the San Francisco-based Nichi Bei Weekly.

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