Vet Votes

A whole slew of you sent us this link to the story of 93-year-old Army veteran Frank Tanabe voting from his bed where he is being treated for an inoperable cancer tumor. Frank enlisted in the Army while he was in a an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II and according to his daughter, he’s been anxiously awaiting his absentee ballot so his voice can be heard one last time;

The Army assigned Tanabe to the Military Intelligence Service, a classified unit whose members were collectively awarded the Congressional Gold Medal last year along with soldiers who served in the 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team — highly decorated segregated units of mostly Japanese-Americans.

“I’d like to accept on behalf of all hyphenated Americans, including American-Americans,” Tanabe told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser at the time. “We all served together in defence of our country.”

So if Frank is excited about voting, you should be, too.

Category: Veterans Issues