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Here he is to tell the story of the Japanese who fought for the United States in World War II. I have a daily standard mantra, which is every day is a great day. I have my faith, my family, and live in the finest country in the world. I say that every day, every chance I get, but although I'm extremely positive and grateful, having been born in the United States, I tell people, when I was born here I hit the lotto. So when I say that mantra, sometimes I get pushback about the finest country in the world part. And I say, listen, I've been around the block a few times.
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He gave up his life, Abraham Lincoln, knowing full well the risk he was taking. The military is a perfect example. President Truman in 1948 integrated our military services. Prior to that, we had segregated units. The black units in World War II, we had the Japanese-American unit, which I might add was the 100th Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which fought in Europe. To this day, it's the most highly decorated infantry unit of its size and length of service. It was a unit that everybody wanted assigned to them because of their bravery. By the way, in a combat unit, a theater operation like the European Theater of Operation, we probably had nine million guys who served in that area during the war.
And the reputation of good units spreads like wildfire in combat zones, as well as the bad units. And the 442nd, their reputation was crazy. In fact, back in the late 90s, the Army selected the 10 most important battles in the history of the United States Army. And one of them was the one in which the 442nd saved a Texas Army National Guard battalion in the mountains of France. The Germans had surrounded them. It was called the Lost Battalion.
Hitler had ordered the annihilation of that unit. And they were in a very wooded area, surrounded, and so they tried to send units in to rescue that battalion, but nobody could break through. The 100th 442nd had just come off an operation.
And normally, when you have a major operation, you're given a little rest time to reconstitute and get replacements and things like that. But the 100th 442nd was ordered to go save the lost battalion, to rescue the lost battalion. They succeeded, but in doing so, they saved, I think, 200 soldiers from that battalion who were remaining, who were still alive. In so doing, the battalion took 800 casualties in order to get through. So when that happened, the word spread like crazy.
It was here back in the States, too. So the veterans after World War II, when they came back, and they heard people bad-mouthing Americans of Japanese ancestry, i.e. Japanese Americans, the veterans would say, stop saying that.
These people are loyal Americans. And President Truman honored them at the White House with a parade where he awarded their 7th Presidential Unit Citation to them. And he said, you guys fought two fights against fascism, but also against racism. I'm very proud to tell you that I had an uncle who was in that, I had relatives who served, and we had Japanese American soldiers who fought in the Pacific, which was very, nobody knows a lot about them, it was called the Military Intelligence Service. And they were translators and interpreters. And they actually went forward with the Marines and the Army soldiers into battle. They were at Iwo Jima, they were at Guam, they fought in the jungles of the Pacific, and they helped break the Japanese code, the imperial code, which led to our victory at Midway and turned the tide in the Pacific.
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