Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

by Daniel James Brown

One U.S. soldier, Akiji Yoshimura, later summed up what many of them felt that morning, saying he felt “deep anguish and despair because the land that I had been taught to honor by my parents had committed an act of war against the country that I loved.”

The army had called for fifteen hundred Nisei volunteers from Hawai‘i. Nearly ten thousand had turned out.