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June Morimatsu and Milton Kaneshiro  THE GENERAL’S MESSENGER Written by June Morimatsu Daughter of 442nd RCT veteran, Ralph Tomei of M Company We graduated from Farrington High School in 1971, during the era of the war in Vietnam.  For some of the boys in our graduating class the future held the very real prospect

Ralph Tomei was born on May 3rd, 1920 in Wahiawa, Hawai’i. He enlisted into the Army on August 2nd, 1942 at Schofield Barracks, Hawai’i, and was initially placed into the 1399th Labor Battalion until he was sent to Camp Shelby upon the formation of the 442nd RCT. He was assigned to Company M as a