By Martha Nakagawa

Martha Nakagawa is a freelance journalist, who has also worked as a staff reporter for Asian Week, the Rafu Shimpo and the Pacific Citizen since the early 1990s.

After graduating from high school, one youth went into the U.S. Army, the other went to prison. Both fought for their rightful place in the United States.

Stanley Hayami and Takashi Hoshizaki came of age during the early 1940s, in the midst of World War II. Like other teenagers of their time, the two youths were drafted into the U.S. Army, with one exception - Hayami and Hoshizaki were called to fight for democracy overseas while they and their families languished in American-style concentration camps.

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