This is Alan Kubota introducing his father, Sadaichi Kubota, who was a Japanese American Nisei Soldier that fought in the World War II, with the 442 Regimental Combat Team. Sadaichi came to Enchanted Lake Elementary School to talk to our AGT Class about the 422 RCT and the 100 Battalion. Alan Kubota is in the Sons and Daughters archives. He is on the board of directors.
	This is Sadaichi Kubota leading our class in the song called "Sweetly Sings the Donkey." He learned this song at Camp Honoka'ia in Hilo, Hawaii. This camp is to teach the Boy Scouts that live on the Big Island, to take care of themselves in the wild. It also teaches them how to shoot BB guns, how to start a fire with nothing but sticks and how to help others. Everybody joined in and enjoyed singing.
This is Mr. Kubota talking to our class about his war memories. His favorite memory was a little French boy that gave him an egg. One day, as he was getting his food for dinner, he saw a little French boy that was standing with an empty bucket and thought the boy was waiting for someone. After finishing his dinner he saw the boy still standing there, and Mr. Kubota went back into the food line and got another plate. He then went and emptied the food into the bucket and the boy said thank you. The following evening, Mr. Kubota again saw the little boy standing with the bucket and he the same thing occurred as the day before, except this time the boy told him to come with him to his house and have dinner. Mr. Kubota accepted the invitation and he went to the house.
	Mr. Kubota saw the little boy's family sitting at the dinner table with a cooked chicken in the middle. Mr. Kubota sat down and took a plate. The boy's father took the biggest piece of chicken and gave it to Mr. Kubota. When dinner was finished Mr. Kubota thanked the family for dinner that night and the family told Mr. Kubota that the dinner was a thank you to him for giving the boy food for dinner the evening the evening before. Mr. Kubota then left and went back to camp. The following day Mr. Kubota left to go back and fight.
As he was leaving, the little boy came running to him and handed him a cooked egg and said for you and gave him a hug. The same day when Mr. Kubota was fighting, a bullet came right to the top of his head, but luckily it just skimmed the top of his head only knocking him unconscious. When Mr. Kubota woke up a few minutes later he found a puddle of blood wear his head had been. Today, Mr. Kubota feels that because of the egg given to him it served as a good luck charm from the family.