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SPRING VALLEY For most of his 99 years, World War II veteran Frank Wada Sr. didn’t talk about his service in the U.S. Army’s 442nd Regimental Combat Team. But late in life, he could be talked into the rare media interview or photograph, so that his regiment’s history wouldn’t die after he and his fellow soldiers were gone. Wada passed away peacefully at his Spring Valley home on June 14. Family members say they believe Wada was the regiment’s last local survivor. Wada served in E Company of the 442nd, an all-volunteer regiment made up entirely of ....