Posted on May 4, 2019

WWII Heroism of Japanese Americans Gets Due in 'Go For Broke: An Origin Story'

Capt Raymond Sonoda REALTOR® CA Broker CRE ITAR

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"Watching these Americans fight for the right to fight for their country while 120,000 others who look like them are sent to internment camps puts a sobering lens on a shameful moment of xenophobia in the not-too-distant American past."

WWII Heroism of Japanese Americans Gets Due in 'Go For Broke: An Origin Story'

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MAJ Ken Landgren

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I feel they were used as canon fodder. They were the tip of the spear for dangerous missions. The 442 Regimental Commander was so incensed he did not shake the hand of the Division Commander.

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Capt Raymond Sonoda REALTOR® CA Broker CRE ITAR

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Yes, they were considered "expendable" in almost non-stop combat but did have a mission accomplished track record. To rescue 211 soldiers of the Lost Battalion from Texas, they experienced over 800 casualties. Despite many of them and their family members being incarcerated in concentration camps, they fought to prove their loyalty and trustworthiness as Americans. Failure was not an option.

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Capt Daniel Goodman

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http://www.onlythebravemovie.com/cast.php?pat_morita

I'd sent this in before, I'd thought it a really good flick about them, quite unusual, I've sent it in before, it just seemed esp apt here....