In October 1944, 275 soldiers of the Texas 141st Infantry were surrounded by German forces in the freezing black pine forests of the Vosges Mountains. For six days, they had no food. They licked muddy rainwater off pine needles. Every attempt to reach them failed. They were called the Lost Battalion. So the Army sent in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Every soldier in the 442nd was Japanese American. While these young men wore the U.S. uniform, many of their own mothers and fathers were locked behind barbed wire in American internment camps back home. If any men in history had a reason to hold back, it was them. Their motto was Go For Broke. In samurai warfare, we call this捨身, throwing your whole body into the breach without keeping an inch in reserve. They charged uphill through blinding fog, landmines, and point-blank artillery. When the trees exploded around them, they fixed bayonets and kept climbing. It took five days of hell. The 442nd suffered over 800 casualties to pull 211 starving Texans out of those foxholes alive. Four men died or bled for every one man they saved. When the first short Japanese American soldier slid into the trench, a six-foot bearded Texan grabbed him and wept on his shoulder. In 1962, the State of Texas made every member of the 442nd an "Honorary Texan." When the world doubts your honor, do not argue with them. Walk into the forest and bring their sons home.