442nd Infantry Regiment by Jesse Russell

He has made presentations at incarceration camp pilgrimages about the Nisei soldiers from those camps, conducted tours, and spoken at WWII seminars about the Nisei soldiers who served in the Pacific and Europe. Stu is a member of numerous historical and educational organizations. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Bureau of Reclamation and participated in the Senior Executive Fellowship Program at the John F. “Stu” graduated from Oregon State University and received his Master of Science degree in Hydraulic Engineering from Colorado State University. The Hirais were one of 350 families moved to eastern Oregon in June 1942 as laborers in the first internment camp established as a result of President Franklin Roosevelt’s infamous Executive Order 9066. Stuart Hirai grew up as a Sansei - 3rd generation Japanese American - in eastern Oregon, where Nisei mentors who had served in the famed 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team were instrumental in shaping his life. Rex and his wife Stephanie have four children and a granddaughter.

Community Service Award, and public service award from Anchorage Mayor Tony Knowles. He has been active in the community and in his church and has received a number of honors including a Martin Luther King Jr. Since founding his own firm in 1985, Rex has specialized in criminal defense work. for President Committee-Alaska, and taught for 16 years as an adjunct professor. He also worked as an assistant attorney general in the Consumer Protection division, served as general counsel for the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. Ashley Dickerson, and then as a legislative aide for Alaska State Senator Joe Josephson. After earning his law degree in 1983, he worked as an associate for Anchorage attorney M. in journalism from the University of North Florida, he worked for a time for The Florida Star newspaper.

Soon after graduating from high school in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rex served as a hospital corpsman in the U.S. Body> Rex Lamont Butler has been an attorney in Anchorage for four decades, since he graduated from Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C.

442nd Infantry Regiment by Jesse Russell