JAVA Advocate – Winter 2014-2015

Read the JAVA Advocate, Winter 2014-2015 edition.

Inside this issue:

  • JAVA Members, Terry Shima and Grant Ichikawa, Receive Marshall Green Award from Japan America Society
  • Go For Broke Float Honoring Japanese American Veterans Featured in 2015 Rose Parade
  • JAVA President’s Annual Report: 2014
  • Welcome New Members!
  • Executive Director’s 2014 Annual Report (Summary)
  • New POW/MIA Accounting Agency to Open in January: MG Kelly McKeague, JAVA Member, Named Next Deputy Commander
  • MG Clarence K.K. Chinn, JAVA Member, Selected as Commanding General of U.S. Army South
  • JAVA Volunteer appointed by President Obama as HUD Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs
  • JAVA Quarterly Luncheon
  • OSS Detachment 101, China, Burma, India Theater
  • “… in the footsteps of heroes”
  • Former Acting US Solicitor General Cites Misconduct in Hirabayashi and Korematsu Cases
  • Dropping the Atomic Bombs: How Henry Stimson, Secretary of War, Influenced the Decision
  • MIS Exhibit Opens at Honolulu Army Museum
  • Italian City holds Reenactment to Honor Liberators, Including 442nd
  • Proposed Center in France Honors Actions in WWII by Nisei
  • BG Yee Visits Afghanistan to Assess Drawn Down Efforts
  • The Government of France Presents the Legion of Honor Award to WWII Veterans
  • Sam Ishida Takes Honor Flight to Visit WWII Memorial
  • JAVA Members Attend Annual PPALM Meeting
  • Meet the Generals & Admirals
    • BG Viet Xuan Luong, USA
    • Maj Gen Arthur Ishimoto, USAF (Ret)
  • News from UN’s Top Commander in Afghanistan
  • Wade Ishimoto Speaks at Hungarian Defense Ministry
  • MIS Official History to Be Published in Japan; Translation by Japanese Former Fulbright Scholar
  • The Story of the Normandale Japanese Garden with Dedication from MIS Veterans
  • Hisashi “Shy” Morita: A Nisei Korean War Hero
  • Mrs. Terry Miyamura Dies at 89
  • Veterans Affairs, Round-up of Issues
  • The Battle at Monte Cassino. Willie Goo’s (Guardian Angel) Fog
  • News from Veterans Organizations & Friends
  • Thank you, Donors!
  • JAVA Honor Roll
  • Japanese American Veterans Association (JAVA) Membership Application
  • Upcoming Events
  • Correspondence

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