Daniel James Brown’s “Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II” is about tough challenges faced by Japanese Americans after the Dec. 7, 1941,
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Facing the Mountain, by Daniel James Brown
In the middle of the Little Tokyo neighborhood of Los Angeles, there s a monument dedicated to the 442nd Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army, which was composed of Nisei, second-generation Japanese American soldiers in World War II.
Named after the regiment s motto Go For Broke the inscription on the monument reads in part, Looked upon with suspicion, set apart and deprived of their constitutional rights, they nevertheless remained steadfast and served with indomitable spirit and uncommon valor, for theirs was a fight to prove loyalty.
In his excellent new book,