Susumu Ito's parents moved from Hiroshima to become sharecroppers near Stockton.
Thus began a saga that recently brought Ito, 91, to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, where he and 119 former comrades in arms were honored. While his army unit was succoring survivors of Dachau, his family was interned in a camp in Arkansas.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/23/AR2010042303350.html
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