During World War II, law-abiding Japanese-American citizens were herded into remote internment camps, losing their jobs, businesses and social standing, while an all-Japanese-American division fought heroically in Europe.

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"It’s easy to make a buck.  It’s a lot tougher to make a difference."

- Tom Brokaw

Motivation

"Fishing is a hard job and a good job, it’s a rich man’s job and a poor man’s job, it’s a happy job and a sad job, it’s a lot of things. But most of all it’s a rewarding job."

- Tom Brokaw

Success

"You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world."

- Tom Brokaw

Empowerment

"It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference."

- Tom Brokaw

Service

""It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.""

- Tom Brokaw

Generosity

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

Adversity

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

Adversity

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Adversity

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

Adversity

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity