One of my bosses back when I worked in Michigan also served in the Army's 442nd Japanese-American combat regiment in Italy during the war. He was wounded twice but never suffered any permanent disabilities. Paul was originally from Los Angeles where his parents owned a farm and a store where they sold fresh produce and vegetables. When war broke out he was still in high school but he and his family was moved to an interment camp. Upon graduation from the camp's high school he enlisted in the Army, as many young men who had been interned did, and served in Italy and France during the war.
The irony was that Paul's older brother was in Japan visiting an uncle when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and he was subsequently arrested and jailed by the Japanese because he was an American citizen. He and his uncle, who was a Methodist minister and a leader of the anti-war movement in Japan, were imprisoned for most of the war until they were released and placed under house-arrest near the end since the government needed the prison space for POW's. When the war ended he stayed and went to work for the Allied occupation forces and never returned to the US to live, but rather married and raised a family in Japan, later working for a religious organization dedicated to eradicating war and promoting world peace.
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