Recipients

Born and raised in New York, John Rooney received his B.A. from Saint Joseph’s Seminary in New York where he graduated in 1933. He was…

Dan Russell graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1937. He retired in 1967 as a U.S. Army Colonel.

George T. Sakaguchi was relocated to the Minidoka Japanese Internment Camp in 1942. Because he enlisted in the Army from that camp near Hunt, Idaho,…

Samuel Sakamoto was captured during fighting on or about November 27, 1944, and was held by the Germans as a Prisoner of War.