The Go For Broke Soldiers Stamp

The Go For Broke: Japanese American Soldiers of WW2 Forever Stamp is now officially a collectible! 

The US Postal Service has discontinued selling the Go For Broke Stamp, but private online stamp resellers still have them.

Thank you for helping to preserve the Nisei veteran legacy through sharing the Go For Broke Stamp with others!

The Stamp Our Story Committee is grateful for all of the support from communities across the nation and around the world. It took a coalition of supporters to get the Go For Broke Stamp issued in 2021 after a fifteen-year campaign. After a 3-year sales run at USPS, postal policy requires that commemorative stamps be pulled from their sales to open room for new stamps to be issued and for new stories to be told. We thank USPS for issuing the Go For Broke Stamp.

The Go For Broke Stamp was pulled from USPS shelves on December 31, 2024.

The Stamp now officially becomes a collectible. Its rarity goes up, and our hope is that people will cherish the Stamp, and continue to use the Stamp to help share the inspiring American story of the Nisei Soldiers of World War 2. May the Nisei Soldiers story be told from generation to generation, forever.

Please help us in one of our new endeavors to honor late Senator Daniel K. Inouye on a US commemorative postage stamp. Senator Inouye was a Go For Broke Veteran. Click here for more details on how to help. Thank you!

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Stamp Our Story Film

The short documentary film “Stamp Our Story: Honoring America’s Nisei Veterans” tells the inspiring story behind the Go For Broke: Japanese American Soldiers of WW2 Forever Stamp. Learn about the Nisei veterans, and how family and friends of these American veterans rallied to convince the US Postal Service to issue this rare tribute to a group of Asian American Pacific Islanders in the US military. Rare and exclusive historical footage and still images from private and public collections are shown. The film was co-produced by the Stamp Our Story Committee.

The film will be among those to be streamed on the upcoming Day of Remembrance (DOR) online streaming service this year. Watch for it, and support DOR and its programs.

The 18-minute Stamp Our Story film has been featured in eight film festivals nationwide, and it received recognition including the Heritage Award at the 2023 DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon.

Watch the film trailer….

Stay tuned for future screenings of this film in your area.

If you are interested to host a screening, please contact us.

Thank you for helping to share and preserve the Nisei World War II Soldiers legacy!

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Go For Broke Postmark

The Go For Broke Stamp has been used to help preserve the Nisei Soldiers legacy at multiple postmark events since the stamp was issued. Here are a few of our special Go For Broke Postmark events done in collaboration with communities and organizations across the country, and even in France. Most of these events included special commemorative cards that volunteers created to give out and sometimes sell for fundraising for non-profit orgranizations that work to preserve the Nisei Soldiers story. We thank the many generous donors and volunteers who helped make these events happen! We also thank the US Postal Service workers who kindly assisted us with the postmarks for these events:

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Veterans Day Program

St. Francis Xavier Maryknoll Catholic Center

Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California

November 10, 2024

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80th Anniversary:

Liberation of French Towns by the Nisei Soldiers

Honolulu, Hawaii & Bruyeres, France

October 19, 2024

Go For Broke Stamp commemorative cards were given out to attendees at events in Bruyeres, France. The cards were translated into French. The postmark was done in collaboration with the Honolulu, Hawaii postmaster. Duplicate cards in English were distributed in Hawaii. Cards are now being sold for fundraising at the Hawaii Army Museum in Honolulu. Nisei Veteran Shiroku Whitey Yamamoto, whose image graces the Go For Broke Stamp, was a longtime volunteer docent at the Museum. (Image courtesy of the Go For Broke National Education Center — Instagram image)

Cards were distributed at the special Bruyeres parade remembering the Nisei Soldiers who liberated the town. (Image courtesy of the Go For Broke National Education Center — Instagram image).
The Go For Broke Stamp’s image was based on a historical photo of Nisei Veteran Shiroku Whitey Yamamoto (pictured here). He was a longtime volunteer at the Hawaii Army Museum, sharing the Nisei Soldiers story to visitors. The Museum named its “Volunteer of the Year” award  after him, due to his dedicated service both at the Museum and in his whole life, including his military service during World War 2. Prior to his passing, Shiroku was told that his image would be used by US Postal Service designers in their design of the Go For Broke Stamp. Sadly, he passed before the Stamp was issued. Special thanks to the Hawaii Army Museum for this photo, and for sharing about Shiroku. A special Go For Broke commemorative card that honors him and all the Nisei who served can be purchased at the Hawaii Army Museum, and on their website. (Image courtesy of the Hawaii Army Museum)

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100th Anniversary of the Japanese Church of Christ

Japantown of Salt Lake City, Utah

September 21, 2024

442nd RCT Go For Broke Veteran Casey Kunimura was a guest of honor at the event.
Former Utah State Senator Jani Iwamoto hosted and there was a screening of the Stamp Our Story film.
Go For Broke Veterans were remembered with a special photographic display, most from the Utahn Japanese American communities in Salt Lake City, Ogden, and surrounding areas. The display included soldiers from the World War 2 Topaz concentration camp which was located 140 miles southeast of Salt Lake City. The Topaz site is preserved today, and also remembers the military service of Japanese Americans during the war.
Local Utah volunteers and donors helped to create and sponsor the special commemorative cards, and a screening of the Stamp Our Story documentary film.

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“I Am An American: The Nisei Soldier Experience” Special Presentation

Irvine, California

August 29, 2024

A special commemorative card was distributed to attendees. The card featured two local Southern California Nisei Soldiers: Medal of Honor Recipient Sadao “Spud” Munemori, and Distinguished Service Cross Recipient Kazuo Masuda. Munemori was born and raised in Los Angeles. Masuda was born and raised in Orange County, where the event took place. The National Museum of the US Army will be featuring the Nisei Soldiers on an upcoming national touring exhibit beginning in 2026. Local Orange County volunteers generously donated to create and sponsor the cards.

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Nisei Week Festival

Little Tokyo – Japanese American Community and Cultural Center

Los Angeles, California

August 17, 2024

Stamp Our Story Committee volunteers collaborated with the Veterans Memorial Court Alliance for the event, including the sponsorship and creation of special commemorative cards that were given out to Nisei Week Festival attendees.
Nisei Week Princess Caitlyn Tera Sasaki showing the Go For Broke Stamp commemorative cards that were distributed at the event.

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Tule Lake Pilgrimage

Tulelake, California

July 6, 2024

Attendees to the Tule Lake Pilgrimage were able to create mementos using the Go For Broke Postmark that was specially-created for the event.

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Friends & Family of Nisei Veterans Memorial Service

Roberts Park, Oakland, California 

May 18th, 2024

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Nisei Veterans Memorial Center Event on Maui

Kahului, Hawaii

March 16, 2024

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Nisei Heroes Station

Hawaii Japanese Center

Hilo, Hawaii

December 9, 2023

Educator/Author Carolyn Morinishi signed copies of her book, “Japanese American Culture 4 Kids!.” This is the first book ever published to include the Go For Broke Stamp. Carolyn signed copies of the book at the event, and distributed Go For Broke Stamp commemorative cards.

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Friends & Family of Nisei Veterans Reunion

Little Tokyo – Los Angeles, California

September 30-October 1, 2023

442nd RCT Veteran Yoshio Nakamura was among the special guests of honor at the 2023 Friends & Family of Nisei Veterans Reunion in Los Angeles.

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“Walk the Farm” – Tanaka Farms Community Event

Irvine, California

June 17, 2023

Vencent Quaglia of USPS Customer Relations applies the Go For Broke Postmark on a commemorative card for the Walk the Farms event.
Stamp Our Story Committee members pose in front of the Go For Broke Stamp at Walk the Farm. From left to right: VFW Memorial Post 3670 Commander James Nakamura, Wayne Osako, Kayla Cheng, and Robert Horsting.
Go For Broke Stamp commemorative cards were given out to attendees of the event. USPS staff attended to sell the Go For Broke Stamp, and postmark items that people brought to the event.

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Poston Pilgrimage

Parker, Arizona

October 2022 & 2023

A special Go For Broke Postmark was created for attendees of the 2022 Poston Pilgrimage. Descendants of the World War 2 Poston concentration camp, such as Joyce Imai, pictured here with SOSC Chair Wayne Osako, were able to get the postmark on commemorative envelopes and postcards. The Postmark honored the many who were incarcerated at Poston, and those Poston men and women who enlisted in the US military during the war. Poston was located on the lands of the Colorado River Indian Tribes. Japanese Americans at Poston established a friendship with the CRIT people that continues today.

The Poston Monument to the incarcerees of the concentration camp includes a tribute panel that honors the Nisei Soldiers from Poston who were killed in action.
A memorial brick at the Poston Monument that honors Pfc. Torao Hayashi, who was killed in action on October 28, 1944, during the battle of the Lost Battalion in France. His family received notice of his death while still incarcerated at Poston.
Pfc. Torao Hayashi (Courtesy of the Hayashi Family, and the National Gold Star Family Registry)
A letter from Torao to his sister, Yoshiko Louise Hayashi, who was still incarcerated at Poston. He wrote the letter just days before he was killed in action while fighting in the US Army in the 442nd RCT during the battle of the Lost Battalion. (Image courtesy of the Hayashi Family, and Densho)
The Colorado River Indian Tribes participate annually in the Poston Pilgrimage. Here CRIT members are shown performing a special dance and song for attendees. Since the Poston camp was placed on CRIT land during WW2, the CRIT people and Japanese Americans have developed a friendship that continues today.
The CRIT Museum has exhibition panels that share the story of the Poston concentration camp, and includes the Nisei Soldiers story.
Attendees of the 2023 Poston Pilgrimage were given Go For Broke Stamp commemorative cards. Here, three attendees of a special workshop on the Nisei Soldiers story and the Go For Broke Stamp led by SOSC Chair Wayne Osako.

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Independence Day — Manzanar National Historic Site Event

Independence, California

July 2-4, 2022

Pfc. Sadao “Spud” Munemori was a Go For Broke Soldier from the 100th Battalion who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. His family was incarcerated at Manzanar during the war. (Image courtesy of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History)

A Go For Broke Postmark was created for Independence Day events at Manzanar National Historic Site on July 2-4th, 2022, in coordination with the Independence, California post office. This was the first community event after the stamp was issued that featured a special Go For Broke Postmark. Many volunteers from the Manzanar Historic Site, local USPS, and SOSC, contributed time and sponsorship to make this event happen.

Approximately 174 American men and women enlisted in the US military from the Manzanar incarceration center near Independence, California during World War II. Five would give the ultimate patriotic sacrifice in battle, including Pfc. Sadao “Spud” Munemori. He would be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, our Nation’s highest award for military valor. Munemori sacrificed his life to save the lives of men in his platoon on April 5, 1945. To learn more about Spud, go to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

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If you and/or your organization would like to do a Go For Broke Postmark, we may be able to help you. Please contact us for details.

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Remembering Stamp Our Story Committee Founders 

We mourn the loss of Stamp Our Story Co-Founder, Aiko Ogata King. She passed away on May 26, 2022, at the age of 94, with her family close by.

Aiko was born on October 10, 1927, in Turlock, California. She grew up in the Central Valley Japanese American farming community where she would meet Fusa Takahashi, and become lifelong friends. As young teenagers, the two would later be removed from their hometowns with their families and both forced into the Amache, Colorado incarceration camp during World War II. Following the war, she served as a US Army civilian nurse during the Korean War era in Japan.

Aiko developed an interest in collecting postage stamps, as well as a knack for being a “go-getter” and avid community activist in her Ventura Japanese American Citizens League Chapter. She and her childhood friend Fusa viewed a Nisei World War II Soldiers exhibition together at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles in 2005, and became inspired to do more to commemorate the Nisei who served. The two friends thought of getting a US commemorative postage made to honor the Nisei Soldiers, and embarked on a 15-year journey that resulted in the US Postal Service issuing the “Go For Broke Japanese American Soldiers of World War II” Forever postage stamp in June of 2021. 

They developed the Stamp Our Story Committee with family and friends, which would become a nationwide and international movement after the US Postal Service repeatedly denied their requests. Through their commitment and persuasiveness, the Postal Service eventually changed and issued their stamp.

“Aiko’s energy, compassion, and positivity throughout her life will always be remembered by those she knew, and we now grieve her loss alongside her family,” said Wayne Osako, Stamp Our Story Committee Co-Chair. “Aiko’s kind and generous heart led her into a life of service, from nursing, to her work in the JACL, and with our campaign. Every time you pick up or see the Go For Broke Soldiers Forever Stamp, think of Aiko. Her interest in stamps and her tireless work made this a reality.”

Rest in Peace, Aiko.

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Stamp Our Story Founder and Co-Chair, Fusa Takahashi, passed away on January 16, 2022, at the age of 94, with her family close by.

“As we grieve her passing alongside her family, we remember her kindness, leadership, and vision for the 15-year community movement that spread across the nation, and around the world, and led to the groundbreaking creation of the Go For Broke Soldiers Stamp last year,” said Wayne Osako, Co-Chair with Fusa of the Stamp Our Story Committee.

The landmark commemorative postage stamp is the first in U.S. postal history to feature an Asian American soldier. Through the inspiring World War II story of Japanese American service in the U.S. military, the stamp is also the first to feature the history of the incarceration camps.

Fusa founded the Stamp Our Story Campaign with friends Aiko Ogata King and the late Chiz Ohira in 2005. She worked tirelessly and with enthusiasm toward the stamp.

“I hope with the issuance of this stamp, we will be able to make the general public aware of what the Nisei Soldiers have accomplished and this will help dispel discrimination that many Asian Americans are facing,” Fusa shared in a 2021 interview with the Stamp Our Story Committee.

“Always be proud of your heritage — as Nisei, it’s what our parents taught us that made these soldiers give their best.”

Rest in Peace, Fusa.

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White House Recognition of the Go For Broke Stamp Dedication

Click here to read President Joe Biden’s June 3rd, 2021 statement on the release of the stamp.

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FIRST CITY OF ISSUANCE DEDICATION

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

FRIDAY, JUNE 4TH, 2021

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THE HONOLULU CEREMONY

HONOLULU, HAWAII

JUNE 4TH, 2021

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BAY AREA VIRTUAL STAMP DEDICATION

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

JUNE 4TH, 2021

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HOUSTON STAMP DEDICATION

HOUSTON, TEXAS

JUNE 4TH, 2021

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KAUAI STAMP DEDICATION

KAUAI, HAWAII

JUNE 4TH, 2021

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THE SACRAMENTO CEREMONY

SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA

JUNE 5TH, 2021

 

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THE IDAHO CEREMONY

MINIDOKA NHS, IDAHO

JUNE 13TH, 2021

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THE PORTLAND CEREMONY

PORTLAND, OREGON

JUNE 14TH, 2021

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We send our heartfelt gratitude to U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, former Postmaster General Megan Brennan who was involved in this stamp selection, and the U.S. Postal Service. 

This commemorative stamp is the culmination of over 15 years of efforts by the Stamp Our Story campaign founders and the many people who supported the effort. We sincerely appreciate all of you who helped. We are forever grateful.

As we celebrate this announcement, we also ask that you join us in remembering the service and sacrifice of the American men and women of Japanese heritage who served during World War II. Over 800 gave their lives. They served with distinction and honor alongside 16 million fellow American servicemen and servicewomen of the war. 

The First Day of Issuance for the stamp was Thursday, June 3rd, 2021.
The First City of Issuance is Los Angeles, California, where the Go For Broke veteran widows and their friends and families first started to campaign for the stamp in 2005.

Stamp Our Story is currently working with the U.S. Postal Service to develop local, special dedications for the stamp release across the nation where there is interest. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, USPS produced a national stamp dedication video that is viewable online.

These Japanese American men and women patriotically served in the U.S. military during the war, despite our nation’s mass incarceration of their families, friends, and communities in detention centers, or “internment” camps, on American soil. Many of them enlisted from behind the barbed wire of the camps, seeking to contribute to the war effort, and to prove their loyalty through service. They served amidst intense war hysteria and prejudice directed at them, and at the whole Japanese American community.

Their inspiring legacy helped Japanese Americans get back on their feet after the war, and helped lead to reparations in the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. Theirs is also a proud story shared by our nation’s military, that honors them with buildings named after them, a National Go For Broke Day (April 5th), and a prominent place in the history of the Armed Forces. In 2011, they were also collectively awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. (Read more about their history at the bottom of this page, and on our website’s History page, which includes external links as well.)

The Stamp Our Story Coalition, an ad hoc group of mainly family and friends of the Go For Broke Soldiers, was founded in 2005 by three Nisei (second generation Japanese American) women from California who themselves endured confinement in the camps during the war. The group has long sought to tell the Go For Broke Soldiers story through a postage stamp (click here to learn more about the campaign’s history). Their names are Fusa Takahashi (Granite Bay), Aiko O. King (Camarillo), and the late Chiz Ohira (Gardena). Fusa and Chiz are both widows of Go For Broke veterans: the late Kazuo Takahashi (Military Intelligence Service – MIS) and the late Ted Ohira (442nd Regimental Combat Team, H Company).

Stamp Our Story is led by Co-Chairs Fusa Takahashi (founder) and Wayne Osako. Wayne is a Sansei (third generation Japanese American) whose parents were incarcerated as children at the Jerome and Heart Mountain camps, and whose relatives were Go For Broke Soldiers.

The campaign received overwhelming support from the public, which resulted in petitions nationwide, and even included French citizens and officials from towns liberated from German forces by the Go For Broke Soldiers during the war.  The campaign also received prominent support from local, state, and national lawmakers from both sides of the aisle.

Over the years, Stamp Our Story has submitted and supported various proposals that would tell the “Go For Broke” story, including one that featured the National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II.

On November 17th, 2020, Stamp Our Story learned that the Go For Broke Soldiers stamp will be issued in 2021. We are forever grateful to all of you who helped over the years, including lawmakers, past and present. 

We are proud to highlight that this campaign united Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. Over the years many organizations have contributed to this effort. We would like to highlight the prominent support from the Japanese American Veterans Association (JAVA), and the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) at the local and national levels.

Many of the Go For Broke veterans and their family, friends, and others who supported the stamp campaign have passed away since we began the effort in 2005. Please join with us in remembering them as we celebrate this new U.S. commemorative stamp.

After the stamp is issued this year, we will continue to work toward educating the public about the American story behind the stamp.

 Thank you!

Remember to buy the Go For Broke Soldiers Forever Stamp!

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In recent years a National Go For Broke Day on April 5th was established to remember and to honor the Go For Broke soldiers. This year is especially momentous due to the new Go For Broke commemorative postage stamp. Join us as we honor the American men and women of Japanese heritage who served in the U.S. military during World War II.

Click here to visit the U.S. Department of Defense’s National Go For Broke Day Website.

[Photos courtesy of the National Archives]

What does “Go For Broke” mean?

Go For Broke veterans (wearing caps) at a California event in 2007.
“Go For Broke” is the original motto of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated U.S. Army unit comprised primarily of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Originally the phrase was often used as gambling slang from Hawaii Pidgin English. It meant, “I’m all in and I’m going to risk everything” and to put all one’s chips in. Most of the Japanese American soldiers who served enlisted from Hawaii, so their culture and ways were infused within the platoons. At the time, American troops were generally not yet racially integrated, so most Japanese Americans were forced to serve in such segregated units as the 100th/442nd RCT.

Notably, there is also a “Go For Broke Fight Song” that the soldiers developed and sang .

“Go For Broke” grew to become an inspirational phrase after soldiers used it during and after the war. They faced incredible hardships both abroad on the battlefield, and back home in the States, as they faced racism and prejudice because of their Japanese heritage.

“Go For Broke Soldiers” now commonly refers to all of the American men and women of Japanese heritage who served in the U.S. military during World War II.

Due to the Go For Broke Soldiers Legacy following their wartime and post-wartime contributions and accomplishments, “Go For Broke” has grown beyond the original gambling slang meaning to also embody going for your goal with your best effort, giving it everything you’ve got, and having a positive attitude, no matter how difficult the task.

Nisei veterans have commonly shared that their pioneering Issei parents from Japan generally instilled this persevering spirit within them. 

Men served mainly in the U.S. Army: 100th Infantry Battalion (Headquarters Company, A Company, B Company, C Company, D Company, E Company, F Company, Medical Detachment); 442nd Regimental Combat Team (Regimental Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Battalion, 522nd Field Artillery Battalion, 232nd Combat Engineer Company), 1399th Engineer Construction Battalion; Military Intelligence Service-MIS (Military Intelligence Service Language School-MISLS). The MIS were mainly linguists who served attached to other Allied units in the Pacific Theater of the war. The 100th Battalion served independently from 1942-1944, but it was later combined with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in 1944, and replaced the 1st Battalion. The joined units became known as the combined 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team.

Women served primarily in the Women’s Army Corps-WAC, Army Nurse Corps-ANC, Cadet Nurse Corps-CNC, and in the Military Intelligence Service-MIS.

It is important to note that there are also some Japanese Americans who served in the U.S. military outside of these units both stateside and overseas.

The Stamp Our Story campaign has been inspired by the “Go For Broke” motto as we faced many challenges during our 15-year effort to get a U.S. commemorative postage stamp in their honor.

We believe that the “Go For Broke” spirit is part of the American “Can Do” spirit that we can all be inspired by.

Click here to read The Hawai’i Herald‘s article about Whitey from December 18, 2020.

Why this American story?

442_2Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan in 1941, many Americans doubted the Nisei’s loyalty just because their parents were from Japan. “Nisei” [pronounced KNEE-say] means ‘second-generation’ Americans born to parents who are from Japan.

The Nisei felt compelled to help our nation win the war and show their American loyalty in the face of the war hysteria and prejudice against them. 

Most Japanese Americans at the time were located in communities in Hawaii and in the west coast states of California, Oregon, and Washington.

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Caught up by the war hysteria and prejudice, then President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which required Americans of Japanese heritage to leave west coast states or be forced into detention centers with armed guards and barbed wire surrounding them.

An estimated 120,000 Japanese Americans were confined by federal officials into these “relocation centers,” or “internment” camps (like Manzanar, pictured above). Many Americans feared them just because they looked like the enemy. The suspicion was based on fear, not fact. Two-thirds of those who were incarcerated were American citizens. No evidence of wrongdoing was presented by authorities to justify their detention.

Few would blame them if they chose not to serve after the nation removed their citizenship and civil rights. Some did resist military service and were faced with federal charges. Yet, over 33,000 Japanese Americans enlisted in the U.S. military anyway, many from behind the barbed wire of the camps. They mainly served in segregated units, and their heroics and valor are now legendary. Over 800 gave the ultimate sacrifice. The 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team would become the most decorated unit of the war for its size and length of service. They earned over 18,000 medals, 4,000+ Purple Hearts, eight Presidential Unit Citations, and 21 Medals of Honor, in just two years of service. In the war with Japan, they are credited with shortening the war by two years, and founding the US Armed Forces Defense Language Institute (originally called the Military Intelligence Service, or MIS). Nisei women served in the Women’s Army Corps, Army Nurse Corps, and Cadet Nurse Corps.

This American story is one of the shining examples of patriotism in our nation’s history. 

Why a stamp?

It is just a tiny rectangular piece of paper. People buy stamps less and less each year with the increased use of electronic communication. So what’s the big deal?

A commemorative stamp, while small in its dimensions, is huge in its impact. It will be preserved and remembered as an iconic image which will last through the ages.

Stamps are still enjoyed and used widely. Most nations, including the U.S., issue stamps as a symbolic way to remember people, places, events, and other things that are important to the shared history and culture of its people. On a functional level, most people must buy at least some stamps for use on bills, etc. Many people enjoy selecting special stamps to use for important letters, cards, invitations, and packages. Some stamps become personal keepsakes, too. Stamp collecting is still one of the most popular hobbies in the world. Stamps can even be beautiful, miniature works of art.

The U.S. Postal Service accepts stamp subject ideas but not any designs or images. The Postal Service reserves the right to decide on the final stamp image.

Join us in remembering these Americans through the “Go For Broke” stamp for what they did in service to our nation with utmost valor, in the face of so much adversity abroad and at home.

Theirs is a truly inspiring story for America, and the world, that we think people will want to remember a hundred years from now!

Thank you!

On a side note: They Deserve A Stamp was formed in recent years as a sister campaign working toward the shared goal of the stamp. A special thanks goes out to Jeff MacIntyre and They Deserve A Stamp for all of their help! They Deserve A Stamp is part of the Stamp Our Story campaign.

To read more about their connection, go to About Us.

Stamp Our Story is the 2016 relaunch of The Nisei World War II Stamp Campaign, which is the original name of the stamp effort. Stamp Our Story is also called the “founders’ campaign” because it is the original effort begun in 2005. To read about the campaign’s story, go to About Us.