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It’s All AboutYOU Stanley Izumigawa:
A Member of the Greatest Generation Makes Way for Generations to Come From Maui’s tranquil shores to Mississippi’s bayous and on to the shores of North Africa, 20-year-old Stanley Izumigawa was among the first group of replacements from the 442nd to join the 100th Battalion in March, 1944. “Why we volunteered,
I cannot recall,” he wrote in his personal memoirs, “But it was probably a combination of boredom and ignorance.” Like so many of The Greatest Generation, Izumigawa returned home after the war and
got on with life, talking little with other retired educators about the war that took him at the Kaahumanu Shopping across Europe’s battlefields. Center food court to talk story. After a distinguished career “He was impressive…Older as an educator and school than many of us,” said Fujii, administrator, he retired “And none of us would have and took up new passions, dared to go windsurfing like including he did!” windsurfing “My father felt and cycling. While he was strongly that you generous Izumigawa and with his should always his longtime and remember where counsel friend Wallace friendship, he you came from.” Fujii met every was humble, Wednesday talking little Joan Izumigawa. about
> Did you know: The 100th Infantry Battalion Veterans Stanley Izumigawa Scholarship Fund offers financial support to the descendants of the battalion members, all of whom were Japanese Americans, mainly from Hawai‘i.
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his life, his accomplishments. Fujii never knew his long-time friend set up a scholarship fund at HCF to make sure descendants of the 100th Battalion could attend college. “My father felt strongly that you should always remember where you came from,” said his daughter, Joan Izumigawa. Through his gift, Izumigawa left a legacy to honor his past and open doors for future generations.