In 2004, when the Ted Tanouye Memorial was dedicated in Torrance, California on the sixtieth anniversary of his heroic action on Hill 140, eight ethnically diverse high school students began to research and piece together his story and that of his family incarcerated in Jerome, Arkansas. What starts as a quest for the history of their local (and national) hero of the highly decorated 442nd Regimental Combat Team quickly develops into a universal story about how a people's struggle for acceptance as Americans and one man's action sixty years earlier can profoundly affect the lives of today's youth.

The National Museum presents a special screening of Citizen Tanouye, the award-winning documentary that follows the three-day journey of these eight students as they uncover the lost story of local World War II hero and Medal of Honor recipient Technical Sgt. Ted Tanouye. Following the screening students, veterans, and historians will share their experiences.