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The Irrepressible Moe Yonemura

Sep 05, 201720 min
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Episode description

Moe Yonemura was a "big man on campus" at UCLA at a time when there were almost no Nisei on the UCLA campus. Cheerleader, elected student body official, fundraiser, spirit-builder -- Moe did it all. And he kept it up even after he and his family were forced behind barbed wire in the spring of his senior year. When the US Army made it possible for the Nisei to volunteer in 1943 -- to join a racially segregated batallion --  Moe was among the first to join up. This is the remarkable story of an irrepressible young man.
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