Many members of the Little Tokyo community, veterans and local officials are angry over recent vandalism to a monument here honoring Japanese-Americans' service to the U.S. during World War II.
"Although I appear very calm and controlled, inside I boil with anger, and that is the same emotion shared by all the vets and their families," said retired Col. Young Kim to a group gathered in front of the Go For Broke Monument in the Little Tokyo district of Los Angeles.
The decorated veteran was the founding chairman of the 100th/442nd/MIS WWW II Memorial Foundation, which was responsible for the creation of the monument.
Volunteers discovered the vandalism on March 18 during a cleaning of the area around the monument listing the names of 16,126 Japanese-American veterans.