Medal of Honor Recipient Joe Hayashi

[@dbach1025]

Thank you for sharing this womderful story of a true American Heroe. I am in tears because of his family's and others' freedom being snuffed out. Heart breaking. Go for broke. I love it. What s heroic unit as well.

[@andrewwatanabe2087]

Proud to call you Uncle Joe.

[@georgetabacco5379]

Thank all who fought especially those that did not come back home !!!

[@jamesholiday321]

Totally in tears . Oh my god such a great man . Makes me swell with pride to be American . Wow . Mad respect

[@395er]

Forever grateful to these incredible men to persevere through such opposition at home and fight bravely for our country.

[@malcomshaw5962]

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[@johnemerson1363]

He is missing a medal! He was killed in combat. Fatally wounded in combat. Where is his "Purple Heart"?

[@johnwakamatsu3391]

I know that many WWII veterans never received medals because the US Military used to deliver them using the mail and needed a mailing address. I wrote to US Veterans Affairs for a number of veterans that never received medals including my father who was a 1st Sergeant Fox Company 442nd RCT. He was missing a few medals and I thought it would be a good idea to have everything.

[@joehayward2631]

Im glad a true warrior with everything against him still fought like a warrior with no worry for himself.. Reading how Japanese were treated even ones that were in military. They still joined still treated like crap, they were fighting and there families were in jails that looked like German death camps. The government justified this because in Hawaii the Japanese ppl at first helped the Japanese pearl harbor attacker. I don't think at this time were he crashed knew about the attack.

[@paularinaga1576]

This is incorrect. At most only a handful of Americans of Japanese ancestry in Hawaii helped the Japanese. The vast majority were loyal to the US.

[@rogermetzger7335]

I invite everyone to join me in declining to use the word, "race", to refer to divisions of humanity.