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Aloha,
Just finished reading the book and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was born and raised on Kauai enlisted in the US Army in 1956, was commissioned in 1961 at Infantry OCS, Ft. Benning, GA, served two tours in Vietnam and retired from active duty in 1976. Ironically, in the 20 years that I spent travelling and serving all over the world, I experienced racial discrimination on board the USS Princeton off Johnston Island in 1962. I was Leader of a helicopter detachment in support of the US Army Nike Program at the time. On the Princeton at that time was a US Marine Corps Helicopter Squadron. In the Officers Dining Facility, I was assigned to the very last table by myself for all meals. I thought that it was the Navy's and Marine's way of teasing the only Army 2d Lt. on board. However, after the Mess Steward expressed to me his complete surprise of me an Asian-American being a commissioned officer and noting that no one else would speak to me I got the message that I didn't belong. Congratulations to Captain Yamashita for his courageous stand!
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Fighting Tradition: A Marine's Journey to Justice (Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Stud) by Bruce I Yamashita
Robert Mandap, September 12, 2007
Aloha,Just finished reading the book and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was born and raised on Kauai enlisted in the US Army in 1956, was commissioned in 1961 at Infantry OCS, Ft. Benning, GA, served two tours in Vietnam and retired from active duty in 1976. Ironically, in the 20 years that I spent travelling and serving all over the world, I experienced racial discrimination on board the USS Princeton off Johnston Island in 1962. I was Leader of a helicopter detachment in support of the US Army Nike Program at the time. On the Princeton at that time was a US Marine Corps Helicopter Squadron. In the Officers Dining Facility, I was assigned to the very last table by myself for all meals. I thought that it was the Navy's and Marine's way of teasing the only Army 2d Lt. on board. However, after the Mess Steward expressed to me his complete surprise of me an Asian-American being a commissioned officer and noting that no one else would speak to me I got the message that I didn't belong. Congratulations to Captain Yamashita for his courageous stand!
(1 of 1 readers found this comment helpful)