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but equally important and impressive record of the interpreter groups, and the work of the civilians on the home front-was the natural result of the trend which was started in the early months of the war when a group of young men, who numbered at no time more than 170, demonstrated to a suspicious and skeptical community that the
Americans of Japanese ancestry were every bit as American and every bit as loyal to this country and to her ideals as any other group of Americans, whether they were white, yellow, black, or brown.
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They were placed into 3 separate barracks, Varsity, Victory and
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within the HTG. They were ordered back to headquarters where those of
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Hawaii is our home; the United States, our country. We know but one loyalty and that is to the Stars and
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until its recent inactivation. We joined the Guard voluntarily with the hope that this was one way to serve our country in her time of need. Needless to say, we were deeply disappointed when we were told that our services in the Guard were no longer
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who suggested the students volunteer in a labor battalion. Soon after a petition was written and signed by the ROTC students then sent to the military governor at the time,
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