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Posted on 02/28/2016 5:01:08 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska
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Whew! Reading about the actions of these heroes each week always gives me shivers. Reading about Barney Hajiro’s heroism this week is no exception.
How are you this evening? Had a good weekend?
~ Hall of Heroes: Barney F. Hajiro ~
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Sounds like you’ve been lazy like I was today. Good to do that every now and then. aaaaaaah
I’ve been awake for quite a while, I’ll have you know. LOL! Been watching a little tv and of course, keeping an eye on the owls. Both eggs hatched and Momma’s feeding the kiddos now. First meal for the newly-hatched one.
Ugh! The office space is that bad, huh? Drat!!!
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I read a story many years ago about the “Mo Betta” Battalion. It sounds like it was the same outfit. Japanese Americans from Hawaii.
Of course mo betta was how they pronounced more better. It was their way of saying they were good.
Hi Conor, did you get a chance to see that video I sent you a few days ago?
Glad to hear your weekend’s been a good one.
Been a quiet one here, with beautiful weather. Makes us antsy for Spring to arrive and stay!
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Greetings from the left coast!
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I saw momma owl today but not the chicks. What does she feed them?
As for what they eat, well, pretty much anything. Squirrels, birds, snakes, rats, etc.
Tonight's supper was rat.
How can those little owlets eat that big rat?
"How are things?"
"We need to rearrange as nothing is in the right place."
"Was no one here yesterday to direct?"
"No, we were told we couldn't be here until Sunday, and we've never seen the layout "map"."
"Well, I will have several IT guys here early Monday to make everything right and have payroll up and running."
One to the left, one in the middle, and one at the chair to the right. Right now my stuff is on the right, but the other 2 can pick where they want to be. No way to get things organized today because that may not be my spot. LOL!
There's still a lot of it left over for later snacking.
Here's a good feeding shot I got yesterday....
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Hajiro was born in Hawaii, the eldest of nine children born to Japanese immigrant parents who had moved from Hiroshima to Maui during World War I. Two of his siblings died in infancy. The family was poor, and Hajiro left school to work, first in the sugarcane fields of Maui and later as a stevedore in Honolulu. Shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he was drafted into the U.S. Army and performed menial labor as part of an engineering battalion. 
next ten days, Hajiro, a private in Company I, repeatedly distinguished himself in battle. He exposed himself to enemy fire while assisting an allied attack on October 19, and three days later he and a comrade ambushed an 18-man enemy patrol. On October 29, during the rescue of the so-called "Lost Battalion", which had been surrounded by German forces in the Vosges Mountains, he single-handedly destroyed two German machine gun emplacements before being wounded. Shot in the shoulder and wrist, Hajiro's left arm was partially paralyzed. He was able to rejoin the 442nd in Monte Carlo, but was barred from further combat duty. He was then sent back to the United States to recover. 
For his actions during October 1944, Hajiro received the Army's second-highest decoration, the Distinguished Service Cross and the World War II Victory Medal (United States), before being discharged. In 1948, he was awarded the Military Medal by the British government for his part in rescuing the Lost Battalion. A 1990s review of service records for Asian Americans who had received the Distinguished Service Cross during World War II led to Hajiro's award being upgraded to the Medal of Honor. In a ceremony at the White House on June 21, 2000, he was presented with the Medal of Honor by President Bill Clinton. Twenty-one other Asian Americans also received the medal during the ceremony, all but six of them posthumously. Four years later, in 2004, the French awarded Hajiro the Légion d'honneur.
Private Barney F. Hajiro distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action on 19, 22, and October 29, 1944, in the vicinity of Bruyeres and Biffontaine, eastern France. Private Hajiro, while acting as a sentry on top of an embankment on October 19, 1944, in the vicinity of Bruyeres, France, rendered assistance to allied troops attacking a house 200 yards away by exposing himself to enemy fire and directing fire at an enemy strong point. He assisted the unit on his right by firing his automatic rifle and killing or wounding two enemy snipers. On October 22, 1944, he and one comrade took up an outpost security position about 50 yards to the right front of their platoon, concealed themselves, and ambushed an 18-man, heavily armed, enemy patrol, killing two, wounding one, and taking the remainder as prisoners. On October 29, 1944, in a wooded area in the vicinity of Biffontaine, France, Private Hajiro initiated an attack up the slope of a hill referred to as "Suicide Hill" by running forward approximately 100 yards under fire. He then advanced ahead of his comrades about 10 yards, drawing fire and spotting camouflaged machine gun nests. He fearlessly met fire with fire and single-handedly destroyed two machine gun nests and killed two enemy snipers. As a result of Private Hajiro's heroic actions, the attack was successful. Private Hajiro's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon him, his unit, and the United States Army.