And we continue with our American stories.

Major General James Mukayama rose from his blue-collar Chicago neighborhood

to become the first Asian American to command a U.S. Army

Division. General Mook, as he's known, is the author of Faith, Family, and Flag,

memoirs of an unlikely American samurai crusader. Here he is to tell the story of the Japanese

who fought for the United States in World War II.

I have a daily standard mantra, which is every day is a great day.

I have my faith, my family, and live in the finest country in the world.

I say that every day, every chance I get, but although I'm extremely

positive and grateful having been born in the United States, I tell people, when I was born here,

I hit the lotto. So when I say that mantra, sometimes I get pushback about the finest country in the world part.

And I say, listen, I've been around the block a few times.

You know, it does help to be around about eight decades.

And so I tell them, you know, when I joined the military,

there had never been an Asian American admiral or general

in our armed forces.

Now, I was not the first.

I was about the third or fourth.

The club isn't real large.

Now, halves our country made mistakes, obviously. But I'll tell you what, number one,

we're the only country that I know of that had a civil war to abolish slavery, costing over half a

million lives to settle that situation. And our president who ran on that platform was assassinated. He gave up

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