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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Retired U.S. Army Col. Young O. Kim, a highly decorated military hero of World War II and the Korean War who later worked to help the city's Asian communities, has died. He was 86. Kim died from cancer on Dec. 29 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, according to Diane Tanaka, associate director of the Go For Broke Educational Foundation, which Kim co-founded and served as chairman emeritus. "There aren't many war heroes like him, regardless of race and ethnicity," said Edward Chang, an assistant professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside. "He's a truly...

U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. We hope to provide an ongoing source of information about issues and problems that are specific to Veterans and resources that are available to Veterans and their families. In the FReeper Foxhole, Veterans or their family members should feel free to address their specific circumstances or whatever issues concern them in an atmosphere of peace, understanding, brotherhood...

CAMDEN, N.J. -- Harry K. Fukuhara spent half of 1942 in one of the internment camps where the United States government moved 110,000 Japanese-Americans after Japanese pilots bombed Pearl Harbor. He wanted out badly and got out, but only because he agreed to go to war defending the nation that had detained him because of his race. Fukuhara and thousands of other Japanese-American World War II veterans living and dead were honored Monday as defenders of the Constitution with the National Constitutional Center's "We the People" Award. About two dozen of the veterans, now in their 80s, attended the ceremony...