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Show Japanese Father's Last Wish Sends Four Sons to U. S. Armv Typical of the loyalty and affection affec-tion most Japanese-Americans feel for the United States Is the case of the Sakura family. Twenty-five years ago four American-horn Japanese Japa-nese boys were gathered about their father's deathbed in Seattle, Wauh. Old Toyozo Salcura left this last charno with them: "My sons, you arc of the Japa-ncu Japa-ncu race, but you are citizens of the country whouo soil has blessed us. After I have gone it Is my wish that you Conduct yourselves with dignity and that you honor nnd serve this country of your birth." On December 7, 1IM1, three of them were living n Katonvlllc, Wash. They were married, and living liv-ing In comfort nnd sec-nitty. The fourth was working y .Seattle. Early In 11)12 nil four brothers and their aged mother were removed to n relocation re-location camp In Idaho. Hero they . remained for more than n year. Then on January 28, Secretary Stimson Stim-son announced that the army was going to form combat units of loyal Japanese-America ns. All the Sakura brothers volunteered, volun-teered, and were accepted, Although the eldest was 37. They arc train-Ing train-Ing with tin earnestness that surprises sur-prises their officers, as are nil the members of this unit nt Camp Shelby, Shel-by, Miss. So the death-lied Injunc lion of a Japanese iri" 1 tv.'-onn predated A'"'-i " i |