I was privileged to cohost an informal luncheon for these Gold Star Parents from Idaho and other States in the House dining -room along with my distinguished colleague from Hawaii. Congressman SPARK MATSUNAGA. himself one of the great Japanese American war heroes of World War II. As many of my colleagues know. we in the West owe much to our immigrant Japanese. the parents of these brave soldiers who fought so well in Europe and the Pacific. They came more than half a century ago to work on the railroads. to help tie the Nation together with iron rails. They came too to convert the sage brush and the deserts into rich agricultural lands.
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