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I’m limited to a certain # of tweets per thread, but like my old squad leader used to say, I improvised, I adapted, & I overcame. Started this labor of love a few years back, but the 2023 thread of daily threads for #AAPIHM begins here on 1 May, with links to successive threads.
https://twitter.com/danielmkim/status/1653068608749072384
I started this in 2018 because I was pissed off. At the time, @USArmy had a vanilla tribute to AAPI soldiers on the main Army page, but not even a link to the 4-4-Deuce. I’m still pissed, went to the @USArmyMuseum last summer & the tiny 442 exhibit feels like an afterthought.
If we - soldiers who share #AAPI heritage - are as important to our service’s history as you claim, @USArmyMuseum & @USArmy, then please do better. I didn’t even let my son see that sad display. I was spoiled, we’d been to @USMCMuseum just before, where they honor everything &
everyone possible who are integral to that service’s history & lore. Their Montfort Point Marines exhibit puts our US Colored Troops & Red Ball Express sections to abject shame. Please. Do better.
Signed, very respectfully, a former soldier who is still more soldier than civilian, who knows our branch of service & our service’s *national* museum are capable of so much more. We are not an afterthought. We belong.
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