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