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Yep, Matt. And all very well depicted in one of my favorite WWII movies..."Go For Broke"(1951).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYl2hK_v7wg

(...btw, growing up in Gardena CA, at the time in the 1960s when many Japanese-Americans lived there, a few of my classmates' fathers were members of the 442nd)



It is my opinion that the whole Nissei/442 dynamic is something that is truly American at its very core and I plan on taking great time in teaching this to my two boys when the time comes that they are old enough to grasp. The Nissei were men among men. A salute to life of the honorable Inouye