JAVA Advocate – Summer 2013
Read the JAVA Advocate, Summer 2013 edition.
Inside this issue:
- Japanese American Rear Admiral Assumes Command of Elite Navy SEAL(s)
- Japanese Heritage Night
- President’s Message
- Welcome New Members!Ten High School Scholarship Winners Awarded at JAVA Luncheon
- Lost Battalion Survivor awarded French Legion of Honor
- Japan Bestows Special Honor Upon World War II Veteran Terry Shima
- Dept. of Veterans Affairs’ Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
- Vice Admiral Harris Nominated to be Commander of Pacific Fleet
- Placer County Unveils Japanese American WW II Memorial
- Nitto Tire Selects JAVA as partner to Distribute Large Quantity of Valuable Films
- Second Japanese American woman appointed to the rank of General
- Meet the Generals & Admirals
- JAVA Participates in High Profile Activities During Memorial Day Weekend in Nation’s Capital
- JAVA Participates in Sakura Matsuri Festival
- National Japanese American Historical Society to open MIS Learning Center at Bldg. 640
- Two JAVA Members Receive AAGEN Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award
- Setting the Record Straight: In Memory of Bob Fletcher
- High Ranking Japanese American General Discusses Space Reconnaissance
- JAVA Research Team Discovers Truth to Number of Nisei Linguists During WW II
- Retired Sansei General Selected as Illinois Veteran of the Month
- VA Converts over 30 Percent of Disability Claims into Digital Files
- Brunswick Middle School Students Visit the National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism
- The Story Behind the 442nd Shoulder Patch
- Notes from General John Campbell, Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
- Promotions and Retirements
- Congressional Gold Medal mounted on NOAA Research Ship
- Nisei Ben Kuroki interviewed for U.S. Air Force documentary, “Portraits in Blue”
- Battle of Midway Commemoration
- Honolulu OSS soldier Served in Team that Rescued Doolittle Raiders
- Book Review: The OSS in Burma by Troy J. Sacquety
- JAVA Participates in Gettysburg Sesquicentennial Event
- JAVA members honor Glen S. Fukushima at a lunch on May 14, 2013
- Thank you Donors!
- JAVA members welcome Honolulu residents and JAVA member, Colonel Charles and Helen Moriyama
- Memorial: Erwin H. Blonder, Lost Battalion Member
- Memorial: Maggie Ikeda, Long time JAVA volunteer
- JAVA Membership Application
- From the Editor
- Upcoming Events