WWII Army Scout Earns Medal of Honor 51 Years After War
Posted on August 20, 2017 by Katie Lange
By Molly Manuszewski, DoD News
On Aug. 21, 1959, Hawaii officially became a state. Since today marks its 58th anniversary, we want to commemorate a true hero born and raised in Makawao, Hawaii.
Army Pfc. Kaoru Moto was a Nisei, or second-generation Japanese-American, and spent his early years in the sugar plantation town of Spreckelsville, Hawaii. His parents, both immigrants from Hiroshima, traveled across the Pacific to work for the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company. Ten months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Moto joined the Army.
http://www.dodlive.mil/2017/08/20/wwii-army-scout-earns-medal-of-honor-51-years-after-war/
