Oregon Nisei Veterans WWII Memorial Highway

On November 29, 1944, American Legion Post 22 took sixteen names off the honor roll it had put up at the Hood River County Courthouse, every one a Nisei soldier and a U.S. citizen. Hundreds of letters of protest reached the Legion. In January 1945 Frank Hachiya of Hood River was killed in the Philippines. The Legion's national commander called for the names to go back, and on April 9, 1945, fifteen of the sixteen were repainted. The legislature named Highway 35 for Oregon's Nisei veterans in 2022, and this marker was dedicated in November 2025.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Rowena Crest and the Tom McCall Preserve — 10.0 mi
  A crest where the Ice Age floods jammed against a basalt promontory, above a plateau of mounds no one has fully explained, and a few in the parking loop that the highway department built.
• Bonneville Dam — 21 mi
  The first federal dam on the Columbia, where someone has counted the fish climbing its ladders every year since 1938, beside an island the Corps used as a dump for forty years.

More markers nearby

• Beacon Rock — 22 mi