While participating in a pilgrimage in France, Bill and Anne Okubo visit a museum in Bruyeres where rumors of a canteen ring true. Etched in the side: "James OKubo", the name of their father, who survived the war, but passed in 1967 in a tragic car accident.

In this powerful video, we accompany Bill and Anne Okubo to the forested hillside in France where their father, Army medic James K. Okubo, risked his life under relentless enemy fire to save dozens of wounded soldiers during World War II—acts that would later earn him the Medal of Honor. Standing on Banzai Hill, Bill and Anne take in the steep, unforgiving terrain and reflect on the unimaginable conditions their father faced with courage, compassion, and quiet heroism.

Known for his battlefield heroism in the 100th Infantry Battalion, Lt. Miyashiro also showed unexpected compassion to enemy soldiers. As a wounded POW, that compassion was returned—saving his life in a German camp. His granddaughter Lindsay Horikoshi shares his remarkable story of courage and humanity.

At 17, Toshi Ito was incarcerated at Heart Mountain with her family—an experience that ended in heartbreak when her father, stripped of dignity and livelihood, took his own life. Her story is a powerful reminder of the long, often unseen cost of injustice.

The fight for redress was decades in the making—a national campaign for justice that demanded an apology and compensation for the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans. This story reveals how grassroots activism, political strategy, and personal testimony came together to right a historic wrong.