I am what I am today in part due to the heroes of Go For Broke, a term Nisei soldiers used during World War II, describing their fighting attitude.  Here was a group dedicated to proving themselves as citizens of their country after their family and friends got tossed into concentration camps.  Well, they were called internment camps.  If not for this "opportunity"-- 33,000 Japanese Americans served and 800 died --life in Hawaii could well still be infused with a plantation mentality.   The 100th/442nd Infantry Regiment became the  most decorated unit  in U.S. military history.  As much as I revered them, I got to admit that my military service was less than exemplary.  After I graduated from college, I became vulnerable to the draft.  So I joined the Army Reserves, and after infantry training for six months, returned to Naalehu on the Big Island of Hawaii and was placed in the same 442 unit that was so famous.  This town was sufficiently far away that I did not need to atten