The documentary film focuses on Robert M. Wada who have experienced struggles going through WWII Japanese internment camps, discrimination, and tragedies as a young Marine fighting for his country in the Korean War.

The purpose of this film is to share the history of what Robert Wada had experienced as a Japanese American during the 1900s and to portray his life of surviving loss and moving forward in consolation of his friend and those who have died in War.

The goal is not only to allow the audience to feel sympathy and respect from seeing Wada’s life of involvement and service to others, but also to imply meaning in the involvement of the younger generation to history; to inspire a connection to the past generations.

Robert M. Wada is the youngest of 9 children born in Redlands, California, of parents who settled in the United States in 1911. He grew up surrounded with Japanese march music, Japanese army and navy pictorial books, thus becoming very military oriented. Shortly after the attack in Pearl Harbor in 1942,Wada and his family were sent to an internment camp, where they remained for three years.

During WWII, Japanese Americans were considered people without country. To prove his loyalty to the government and public, Wada joined the United States Marines on November 26th, 1950.

Later Wada was sent to Korean War as the ninth largest replacement by the Marine Corps. Coming back from Korean War, he started his lifetime career as a Land Surveyor. In 1990s, he was an organizer, founder, charter member and president of several non-profit civic and veterans related organizations, building memorial walls. Wada took great pride and responsibility for making veteran’s sacrifices in the Korean War. He believes that God has kept him alive to carry out a mission, and to carry out a duty to retain their memories and delivering them to others. Robert M. Wada is instrumental in the creation of multiple memorials honoring Japanese American soldiers who died in battle.

Written and directed by Christopher HK Lee

The film is sponsored and supported by:
Fading Away (www.fadingawaymovie.com)
C.A.R.E. Projects
US-Korea Institute (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University
Korea Foundation