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Jack Hirose describes his assignment as an employee at the Washington Post where he met and interviewed members of the 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team upon their return to Washington, D.C. after World War II.
Jack Hirose describes his assignment as an employee at the Washington Post where he met and interviewed members of the 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team upon their return to Washington, D.C. after World War II.


![U.S. Army Vietnam Vet on Nisei Vets
U.S. Army Vietnam vet Ken Hayashi on the importance of the WWII American soldiers of Japanese ancestry:
“It’s because of what those Nisei men did that we [Japanese Americans] are not considered second-class citizens, with our loyalty constantly subject to question. They made us Americans again.” U.S. Army Vietnam Vet on Nisei Vets](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NxF9sUG5D58/mqdefault.jpg)







