Local story on the 442nd rescue of the Lost Battalion

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http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=11743

So many friends that when the Lost Battalion was rescued and the 442nd pushed on until they were so decimated they had to be relieved, what was left of his company of 185 men fit into one transport truck.

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After he was shipped back to the United States, he was on a train home to Spokane that pulled into Washington, D.C., with a view of the Capitol dome out the window. A sergeant got on the train, spotted his uniform and asked if he was with the 442nd. Yes, he said. The sergeant said he was with the Lost Battalion.

“I’ll never know why I did this. But I got up and said ‘You know how many guys we lost saving you so-and-sos?’ I was just boiling mad and ranting.” The sergeant was taken aback and finally said they’d have done the same for him, to which Shiosaki thinks he probably said “bullshit.” The sergeant stuck out his hand, but Shiosaki couldn’t take it. He just turned and looked out the window until the sergeant walked away.

“It’s not my brightest moment, but at the time I was still bitter,” he said. If he were to meet that sergeant now, he’d try to explain that the images were still fresh in his mind. “I hope he’d understand.”

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