NISEI HONOR WAR VETERANS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Nobody knows how many Japanese-Americans fought in the Korean War Korean War, conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea from June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953. At the end of World War II, Korea was divided at the 38th parallel into Soviet (North Korean) and U.S. (South Korean) zones of occupation. . They were simply lumped with other soldiers of Asian descent as ``Mongoloid.'' For those who survived, the memories of what some have dubbed a forgotten war are all too clear. ``We were overshadowed by the heroics of the World War II veterans and the controversy in Vietnam,'' said Bob Wada, president of the Japanese-American Korean War Veterans ≈The last U.S. Korean War veteran on active duty was Lt.Col Don Byers, US Army, who retired in 1992
Dozens of veterans from World War II and Korea met over the weekend at a hotel in Burbank for the 47th annual Nisei Veterans of Foreign Wars reunion. The Nisei - second-generation Japanese-Americans - dedicated the reunion to Korean War veterans such as Roy Shiraga, who after being wounded in the leg was nearly left behind because his fellow troops thought he was an enemy soldier. More than 240 Japanese-Americans were killed or reported missing in action during the war, although specific figures are unclear. At the time, the government classified Asians of all ethnic backgrounds as ``Mongoloid,'' said Wada, who lives in Buena Park. The reunion's keynote speaker was Hiroshi Miyamura, a Medal of Honor Medal of Honor highest American military decoration for wartime gallantry. [Am. Hist.: Misc.] See : Bravery winner. He held off the enemy with machine-gun fire so that two wounded soldiers could flee to safety, and later spent 27 months as a prisoner of war PRISONER OF WAR. One who has been captured while fighting under the banner of some state. He is a prisoner, although never confined in a prison. 2. In modern times, prisoners are treated with more humanity than formerly; the individual captor has now no . |
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