Tadayoshi Hamasaki
the 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team. This is the highest Congressional Civilian Medal. While recuperating in the veterans’ hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan, Tad met his future wife, Mary Kobayashi, through a friend. Mary had been interned with her family on October 15, 1942, at the Central Utah WRA Relocation Camp, known as Topaz. She had