The General’s Messenger
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 of being drafted into the military. When my friend, Milton Kaneshiro, was faced with the dilemma of a low lottery number and waiting for the inevitable draft notice, or, enlisting and choosing where he would be stationed, Milton chose to enlist and was guaranteed eighteen months at the Army base in Stuttgart, Germany. As the center for the European high command, Stuttgart Army Base had more than twenty generals. Now, this...
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