It took more than half a century and a sustained lobbying campaign in Congress before President Clinton, on June 21, 2000, finally conferred Medals of Honor on another twenty members of the regiment—some of them posthumously—saying, “Rarely has a nation been so well served by a people it has so ill served.” Among those receiving the Medal of Honor that day were Daniel Inouye; the medic James Okubo; two men from K Company—Ted Tanouye and Joe Hayashi—and William Nakamura, for whom, the following year, the federal courthouse in which Gordon Hirabayashi had been convicted would be renamed the
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