BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Natl Japanese-American Monument -- Opening Ceremony (2001)

DC -- Natl Japanese-American Monument -- Opening Ceremony (2001):

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. JAMO_010629_010.JPG: Norman Mineta. He served as Secretary of Commerce under Clinton and then Secretary of Transportation under W Bush. He was interned at Heart Mountain.
2. JAMO_010629_015.JPG: Daniel Inouye @ opening of the National Japanese-American Memorial
3. JAMO_010629_016.JPG: Robert Matsui, US Congressman, was assigned to Tule Lake
4. JAMO_010629_018.JPG: Daniel K Inouye. Most of us know him from the Richard Nixon impeachment hearings. However, he served in the US military in Europe during World War II while his animal was interned at a camp in the states. As his Senate Web site ( http://inouye.senate.gov ) says: On December 7, 1941, the fateful day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 17-year-old Dan Inouye was one of the first Americans to handle civilian casualties in the Pacific war. He had taken medical aid training and was pressed into service as head of a first-aid litter team. He saw a "lot of blood" and did not go home for a week. In March 1943, 18-year-old Dan Inouye, then a freshman in pre-medical studies at the University of Hawaii, enlisted in the U.S. Army's 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the famed "Go For Broke" regiment. Inouye was soon promoted to the rank of Sergeant and was designated as a combat platoon leader during the Italian campaign. He slogged through nearly three bloody months of the Rome Arno campaign with the U.S. Fifth Army. In the fall of 1944, Inouye's unit was shifted to the French Vosges Mountains and spent two of the bloodiest weeks of the war rescuing a Texas Battalion surrounded by German forces. The rescue of "The Lost Battalion" is listed in the U.S. Army annals as one of the most significant military battles of the century. Inouye lost ten pounds, became a platoon leader and won the Bronze Star and a battlefield commission as a Second Lieutenant. Back in Italy, the 442nd was assaulting a heavily defended hill in the closing months of the war when Lieutenant Inouye was hit in his abdomen by a bullet which came out his back, barely missing his spine. He continued to lead the platoon and advanced alone against a machine gun nest which had his men pinned down. He tossed two hand grenades with devastating effect before his right arm was shattered by a German rifle grenade at close range. Inouye threw his last grenade with his left hand, attacked with a submachine gun and was finally knocked down the hill by a bullet in the leg. Dan Inouye spent 20 months in Army hospitals after losing his right arm. On May 27, 1947, he was honorably discharged and returned home as a Captain with a Distinguished Service Cross (the second highest award for military valor), Bronze Star, Purple Heart with cluster and 12 other medals and citations.
Wikipedia Description: National Japanese American Memorial To Patriotism During World War II
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The National Japanese American Memorial To Patriotism During World War II is national memorial in Washington, DC honoring the loyalty and courage of Japanese Americans during World War II and commemorating the heroism and sacrifice of Japanese Americans who fought and died for their country. It was authorized by federal statute (PL 102-502) and signed into law by President George H. W. Bush on October 24, 1992. The 0.76 acre site was transferred from the Architect of the Capitol to the Park Service in 1996. The Memorial was dedicated in 2000 and ownership of the Memorial was transferred to the United States Government in 2002. The National Park Service has the responsibility to maintain the Memorial. The project for the Memorial was initiated in 1988 by the "Go For Broke" National Veterans Association Foundation. The name of this organization was later changed to the National Japanese American Memorial Foundation (NJAMF).

The memorial is centered around a bronze sculpture of a crane with barbed wire by Nina Akamu. It also contains a bell modeled after a Japanese temple bell and a Zen garden-like pool of water with boulders representing the islands of Japan.
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- Inouye, Daniel appears on:
  - 2010_DC_FNA_100128 Foundation for the Natl Archives -- "Fighting for Democracy" opening (w/Daniel Inouye and George Takei)
  - 1997_DC_FDR_Ceremony_970502 DC -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial -- Event: Opening Ceremony (1997)
  - 2004_DC_AmerInd_Proc_040921 Natl Museum of the American Indian -- Event: Native Nations Procession @ Mall
- Mineta, Norman appears on:
  - 2019_DC_Mineta_191119 Natl Museum of Amer History -- Book Event: Sec Norman Mineta and Andrea Warren (“Enemy Child”)
  - 2016_DC_Inouye_160419 Library of Congress -- Event: Norman Mineta and Alan Simpson @ Second Inouye Lecture
  - 2011_DC_Honors_111204 DC -- Kennedy Center -- Kennedy Center Honors (2011)
  - 2011_DC_Mineta_110910 Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Talk: Norman Mineta
  - 2010_DC_Honors_101205 DC -- Kennedy Center -- Kennedy Center Honors (2010)
  - 2008_DC_Honors_081207 DC -- Kennedy Center -- Kennedy Center Honors (2008)
  - 2007_DC_Honors_071202 DC -- Kennedy Center -- Kennedy Center Honors (2007)
  - 2007_DC_Tapella_071106 Government Printing Office -- Swearing In Ceremony for Robert C. Tapella
  - 2004_DC_WW2_Internment_040530 WW2 -- Internment of Japanese Americans in Wyoming: Norman Mineta (Secretary of Transportation) and Alan Simpson (former U.S. Senator from Wyoming). Moderated by Marc Pachter
  - 2001_VA_Arlington_VDay_011111 VA -- Arlington Natl Cemetery -- Event: Veterans Day (2001) @ Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
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