Word: nisei
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...budget is contributed by the congregation, the rest by friends and 185 "national associates" (who include such kindly lights as Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Harper Sibley, president of the United Council of Church Women). In addition to his white Co-Pastor Robert Meyners, Thurman is assisted by a Nisei Methodist who preaches once a month...
...Yoshiko Tanigawa, 22, a Nisei girl who spent 20 months at the Tule Lake detention camp during the war, was commissioned an ensign in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps, went on duty at the Long Beach, Calif. Naval Hospital. She is the U.S Navy's only Japanese-American officer...
...rocky slopes outside Seravezza in Italy, Private First Class Sadao S. Munemori, a Nisei and a member of the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team, was killed when he flung himself on a German hand grenade as it rolled toward two of his comrades. The President awarded him the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously. Last week, in a ceremony at the Brooklyn Army Base, the Army transport Wilson Victory was renamed the Private Sadao S. Munemori in his honor, and in honor of all Nisei who had died in the service of the U.S. Said his brother: "Sadao told my mother...
...escape civilization, 37-year-old Graves spends most of his time in the woods or on the cliffs of Washington's Puget Sound. Lately he and a young Nisei friend named Yonemitsu Arashiro have been living in a forest lean-to and doing what they call "rock painting," which is not painting at all. Graves and Yonemitsu load heavy rocks on their truck, haul them to their backyard, then spend days wrestling the huge boulders into arrangements that please them...
Last week, he sent back his first impressions from Tokyo: "The Japanese here are considerably smaller than [Nisei]. One wonders that their war lords ventured to pit them against the Americans . . . until he remembers how they defeated the Russians, Germans, English, French, Dutch and Australians. . . ." The Colonel was pleased by the bearing of U.S. occupation troops: "I feel that America . . . will not be defeated ... by our anti-American representatives at Lake Success...