JAVA Advocate – Summer 2014
Read the JAVA Advocate, Summer 2014 edition.
Inside this issue:
- Nisei Veterans Meet with President Barack Obama
- President’s Message
- JAVA President’s Statement Concerning Secretary Shinseki’s Resignation
- JAVA Celebrated Memorial Day 2014 with Events at Arlington Cemetery and a March on Constitution Avenue
- The Story of the Golden Cranes of the Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism
- President Truman Salutes the 442nd Regimental Combat Team – The Symbolic Meaning of the President’s Salute.
- ‘Why invite a guest speaker?’
- JAVA Seeking Donations of Artifacts to the National Museum of the United States Army
- Welcome New Members!
- JAVA Vice President Wade Ishimoto Inducted as Distinguished Member of the Special Forces Regiment
- JAVA Bids Farewell to COL Yoshihiro Iseri
- Promotion Ceremony for LCDR Janelle Kuroda
- JAVA Members Participate in Asian Pacific Heritage Month Activities
- DJ Satoda, 2013 Masaoka Scholarship Grantee, Discusses his First Year at Berkeley
- National History Day Contest Featured Support of two JAVA Members
- New Jersey Middle School Student is Finalist in National History Contest
- Two Singapore American School students win second Prize in National History Day Competition. JAVA member assisted.
- Major Mitsuyoshi Fukuda’s Significant Contribution to Nisei Legacy
- West Point Cadets Learn of Japanese American Experience During WWII
- Meet the Generals & Admirals
- General Frederick G. Wong, USA (Ret.)
- Major General Kelly McKeague, USAF
- News from Army’s Topside…
- Change of Command at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait
- 2014 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award in History Recognizes “Twice Heroes”
- Novel, Coral Hare: Atomic Agent, with a Japanese American in Lead Role, Has Great Reviews
- News from Veterans Organizations & Friends
- Setting the Record Straight: The Play “No-No Boy”
- Bob Nakamoto, former JAVA President, Passes
- 442nd Combat Medic Kelly Kuwayama Passes. Saved Senator Inouye’s Life in Po Valley
- CIA forerunner picked 442nd Member for Service. Dick Hamada, JAVA Member, Passes
- Special Forces Hero of Battle of Nphum Ga Burma, Dies days from 101th Birthday
- Creation of JAVA Honor Roll Approved
- Thank you, Donors!
- Japanese American Veterans Association Membership Application
- Upcoming Events
- Correspondence