Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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“You fought not only the enemy, but you fought prejudice—and you have won. Keep up that fight, and we will continue to win—to make this great Republic stand for just what the Constitution says it stands for: the welfare of all the people all the time.” —President Harry S. Truman

Video courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration

Note: The 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team received *seven* Presidential Unit Citations.