Sons & Daughters of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team

10/29/2020

As The Sons & Daughters of the 442nd RCT have been requested by some members for a virus protection mask with the 442nd torch emblem. We are preparing an order to our supplier for a quantity of these, and need to confirm how many to order.

Here are the details for ordering.

These double-layer adult cloth masks with elastic ear loops, are embroidered on the right side with our 442 GO FOR BROKE Torch Logo design.

7 Solid Colors: Black, Navy Blue, Royal Blue, Red, Gray, Tan, Olive Green

FINAL ORDER DEADLINE: Thursday, December 31, 2020.
Price (Pickup in Honolulu): $12.00 each
Price (Mailed via USPS): $14.00 each
Bulk Mail Special: 8 plus: $13.00 each

Send by USPS your Check Payable to:
SONS and DAUGHTERS of the 442nd RCT
933 Wiliwili Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96826

Will be available within 2 weeks.

Please Email: Your Name, Phone Number, Email Address, USPS Mailing Address, Color Choices, Quantity of Each Color before THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2020 DEADLINE.

Include Your Email Confirmation That Your Check Has Been Mailed To Us.

Please Email Your Order Information (and questions) to Both:
[email protected] and [email protected]

Mailing address:
Sons & Daughters of the 442nd RCT
933 Wiliwili Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96826

Email:
[email protected]

06/10/2018

Ted Tsukiyama (522B Field Artillery & MIS) will be signing copies of his memoir, MY LIFE’S JOURNEY, this Sunday, 6/10, from 11 a.m.-2:00 p.m. at the annual show and sale of the Pacific Bonsai Club (which he helped found) at Kilauea Rec Center.

04/18/2016

Photos from the 73rd Anniversary Banquet of the 442nd Veterans, held April 10, 2016, at the Pacific Beach Hotel in Waikiki with 400 attendees including 60 veterans

04/18/2016

442nd Sons & Daughters Club sponsored a rally in support of veteran Noboru Kawamoto at the Hawaii State Capitol on April 5, 2016.

03/30/2016

Sons & Daughters join the battle to restore the civil rights of Noboru & Elaine Kawamoto so they can be reunited

At the age of 95, after serving in World War II to preserve the freedoms we enjoy today and after years of working hard as a longshoreman so he could afford to pay for elder care, he and his wife Elaine are being denied the right to live together in the same care home because of a quirk in a State of Hawaii law.

As a member of the 100/442nd RCT, Noboru and his brothers in arms won the battles for us in World War II. Now in the final battle of his long life, he needs our support. Here's how you can help.

Send an email to Hawaii state legislators. Get details on the Sons & Daughters website page:
http://442sd.org/442sd-news/hb600/sample-email-to-forward-to-the-listed-state-legislators/

Print out a copy of our Petition to the Hawaiian Legislature and get signatures of your ‘ohana, friends, workmates, etc., so they can add their voice. Ask them to forward information on this important issue to their ‘ohana and friends. Download the petition form here:
http://442sd.org/restore-elder-civil-rights-malama-pono-ke-kupuna/

Join us for a rally in support of the civil rights of our kupuna – at the State Capitol on Tuesday, April 5, 11:30am-1:30pm, see this flyer for details.
http://442sd.org/442sd-news/hb600/rally-for-hb600-flyer/

For more information go to the 442 Sons&Daughters website: http://442sd.org/

http://442sd.org/442sd-news/hb600/sample-email-to-forward-to-the-listed-state-legislators/

03/29/2016

03/29/2016

Married for 68 years, 100/442 RCT WWII Nisei Veteran Noboru Kawamoto & his wife Elaine want to live out their remaining years in the same Community Care Foster Family Home. Please support our petition drive for the passage of HB600 which will enable this private pay married couple to be reunited in happiness.Noboru and Elaine Kawamoto

An effort to reunite an elderly couple of more than six decades to live together in a community care home has been begun again. House Bill 600, which would allow two private pay clients to live together in a community care foster family home (CCFFH), has been carried over from last year’s legislative session, where it stalled in conference committee.

Because no hearing has been scheduled for the bill, the son of 442nd veteran Noboru Kawamoto and his caretakers are spearheading a petition drive to get the bill heard and passed.

A rally for Noboru and Elaine Kawamoto is also scheduled at the State Capitol on Tuesday, April 5 at 11:30 am.

At the 442nd Veterans Club, the Kawamoto’s son Norman said his father misses his wife very much. Under current state law, they are only able to see each other a couple of times a week.

“Right now, he’s cautiously optimistic,” Kawamoto said of his father. “He’s hoping that the legislators will release this bill, but he misses my mom something terribly. I’d like to really get them together for their final years and I think they’d be happy together in the same care home.”

Currently, the state only allows one private pay client in a CCFFH. The law requires the care home to leave a bed open for someone who is on Medicaid, but the couple has enough money to pay for the services, so they do not qualify for Medicaid.

Kawamoto is now 95 years of age and his wife 89.

03/08/2016

Please sign the Petition in support of a U.S. commemorative postage stamp to preserve the legacy of the nisei veterans of World War II! Deadline is March 20...93,000+ more signature needed!

We respectfully ask that the President green light a commemorative postage stamp honoring the Japanese American World War II soldiers, known as “the Nisei soldiers.” The USPS has delayed this stamp subject for ten years.

10/19/2015

As a boy growing up on the Hawaiian island of Maui, Clinton Shiraishi’s only aspirations were to become a sugar plantation laborer like his father, who had immigrated to Hawaii from Japan in 1915.

10/19/2015

KAHULUI — Maui’s Katsuyoshi Hamamoto was only 23 years old when he was killed in action during World War II.

09/25/2015

Please come to support the NVLC's 10th Annual Joint Memorial Service to honor the fallen nisei veterans during World War II.

Join us to honor the nisei veterans who gave their lives in World War II on Sunday 9/27 at 10am at Punchbowl.

09/15/2015

Visit our exhibit - Unlikely Liberators - and learn more about the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion. Kahala Mall 10/5/15 - 10/24/15