Go For Broke-An American Story Traditional Cache
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Go For Broke-An American Story
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NANO CACHE CONTAINER!
one of two cool monuments in this parking lot!
There definitely needed to be a cache placed here!
Across the top of the face is the motto: "GO FOR BROKE" and below that are the insignia of the segregated, all-Nisei Army units: the famed 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team, as well as lesser-known Nisei units, the Military Intelligence Service, 522nd Field Artillery Battalion, 232nd Combat Engineer Company, and the 1399th Engineering Construction Battalion.
"Go For Broke!" was the unit motto of the 100th Battalion, and was adopted by the 442nd RCT. It has since been adopted as a motto for all of the Japanese-American units formed during World War II.
The monument's main feature, a large inscription on the face, describes how they served even as they were being deprived of their constitutional rights during the period of Japanese American internment. This inscription uses the term concentration camps to describe the facilities officially called relocation centers. The inscription is attributed to 100th Infantry Battalion veteran Ben Tamashiro, who is best known for his more than 60 appearances in television advertisements for the Bank of Hawaii.
According to his 2004 obituary in the Honolulu Advertiser and Honolulu Star-Bulletin:
After a nationwide search failed to elicit an appropriate inscription, his former commanding officer — Col. Young Oak Kim, who was in charge of the project — wrote to Tamashiro, according to his daughter. The words Tamashiro sent back were the ones chosen — with a single change. Instead of "internment camps" as he had written, the inscription was changed to "concentration camps. CONGRATS TO BENH57 FOR THE FTF
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