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100-year-old Japanese-American U.S. Army veteran Yoshio Nakamura recounts horror, heroism and redemption fighting on the Gothic Line while his family remained in U.S. prisons after Pearl Harbor
By Joe Kirwin
Soon after the surprise Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii when Japanese forces destroyed much of the U.S. Navy and Air Force Pacific Ocean presence, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the arrest of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans living in the United States. They were forced from their homes, farms and businesses and locked up in internment camps in the deserts of the western United States. Yoshio Nakamura and his family were among those that lost everything. They were considered national security threats that could not be trusted.
Two years after the…
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