Beyond the Barbed Wire

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Remember those times when you felt hurt and betrayed by those things which made you who you are. Visualize that pit of despair that rumbled in your gut and angered you to the point of total hate. Now take that feeling and intensify it by a million as your liberties and freedoms are taken away because you are deemed an outcast by the place you call home, the people you call brothers. Then and only then can you attempt to understand the misery and abandonment of the 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team. Through the quivering voices of these Japanese-American soldiers, and the eloquent narration by Noriyuki ''Pat'' Morita (The Karate Kid), comes the true story of god-like men who fought to prove their allegiance to the United States only to return home to find their families removed from their homes and corralled into concentration camps for ''protection.'' This troupe of World War II warriors surpasses the boundaries of man and the realm of the human heart as they fight for the allied troops in Italy and France then for themselves back home. Terri DiBono's and Steve Rosen's awe-inspiring tale demonstrates to the world what it's like to go ''beyond the barbed wire to a better America.'' --Angela Fugundes