in orange county was a family named masuda. and they were imprisoned in hill river aez az. and then there were four sons, two of them were killed in germany. and when their sister and mother returned to westmiister, within a few weeks, midnight raiders came to her door and told her to get out. she was frightened and she did. one of her brothers had been posthumously awarded distinguished service medal the second highest decoration for bravery in the united states army. when a general named joseph stillwell, vinegar joe stillwell, who was something of a legend, heard about that, he went to westminister and presented the medal to mare masuda the sister of sergeant kazua, masudo. he couldn't give it to the mother because she was an alien. and even with everything that happened, or yennals were not allowed to become citizens until 1952. and this is what joe stillwell said on the steps of westminister hall. >>> the knee say brought an awful big hunk of america with their blood. i say we soldiered ought to perform a pick ax club to the japanese americans who fought the war with u

in orange county was a family named masuda. and they were imprisoned in hill river aez az. and then there were four sons, two of them were killed in germany. and when their sister and mother returned to westmiister, within a few weeks, midnight raiders came to her door and told her to get out. she was frightened and she did. one of her brothers had been posthumously awarded distinguished service medal the second highest decoration for bravery in the united states army. when a general named joseph stillwell, vinegar joe stillwell, who was something of a legend, heard about that, he went to westminister and presented the medal to mare masuda the sister of sergeant kazua, masudo. he couldn't give it to the mother because she was an alien. and even with everything that happened, or yennals were not allowed to become citizens until 1952. and this is what joe stillwell said on the steps of westminister hall. >>> the knee say brought an awful big hunk of america with their blood. i say we soldiered ought to perform a pick ax club to the japanese americans who fought the war with u

inister and presented the medal to mare masuda the sister of sergeant kazua, masudo. he couldn't give it to the mother because she was an alien. and even with everything that happened, or yennals were not allowed to become citizens until 1952. and this is what joe stillwell said on the steps of westminister hall. >>> the knee say brought an awful big hunk of america with their blood. i say we soldiered ought to perform a pick ax club to the japanese americans who fought the war with us. any time we see a bar fly commando cooking on these kids or diskrim name e nating against them or their families we ought to bang them over the head with a pick ax. i'm willing to be a charter member. we can't allow a single injustice to be done to the knee say without defeeting the purposes for which we fought. so that's the story of -- part of the story of japanese americans in world war ii and the press in world war ii. and, as i said, i, for one at least, don't doubt that it could happen again. and if it does, it will be the press now more diverse press, but more far-reaching that

so captain reagan was at the burial of captain -- i mean of sergeant masuda, even though it wasn't in his hometown grave. wherever he got buried, captain reagan was there. so we had someone else remind the president of that occurrence. and in fact i think there is a picture of him at that cemetery or at the funeral service. and they even gave him a picture of that to remind him. but it was really governor kane >> so thoen then we were all at the seattle convention in 1988. and we got word that tomorrow morning, the president is going to sign the bill. . >> he's going to sign the bill? and we're all sitting in seattle. so everyone making airplane reservations. and we call the white house and said he can't just sign the bill. this has to be a public ceremony. and we'll all fly out and we'll get everyone there. so they said, okay, we'll make it a signing ceremony. and they said we'll do it at 11:00 in the morning. so everyone was flying -- just racing around trying to get reservations on the airplane to get from seattle washington to washington, d.c. everyone on the red eye and we all ge

so captain reagan was at the burial of captain -- i mean of sergeant masuda, even though it wasn't in his hometown grave. wherever he got buried, captain reagan was there. so we had someone else remind the president of that occurrence. and in fact i think there is a picture of him at that cemetery or at the funeral service. and they even gave him a picture of that to remind him. but it was really governor kane >> so thoen then we were all at the seattle convention in 1988. and we got word that tomorrow morning, the president is going to sign the bill. . >> he's going to sign the bill? and we're all sitting in seattle. so everyone making airplane reservations. and we call the white house and said he can't just sign the bill. this has to be a public ceremony. and we'll all fly out and we'll get everyone there. so they said, okay, we'll make it a signing ceremony. and they said we'll do it at 11:00 in the morning. so everyone was flying -- just racing around trying to get reservations on the airplane to get from seattle washington to washington, d.c. everyone on the red eye and we all ge