• Sign the Online Petition
• Form Letter to Postal Service (.pdf)
• General Form Letter (.pdf)
• Download Petition (.pdf)
• Contact Political Leaders
• Contact Media
• Student Activities

Student Activities

You can play a role in history by helping us to convince the U.S. Postal Service that a stamp should be issued to honor the Nisei World War II soldiers. Select one or more of the following activities:

• Start a local letter-writing campaign. Write a persuasive letter of support and send it to the stamp committee's address below. Then get others (classmates, teachers, family and friends) to send their own letters of support. Letters are strongly encouraged, but postcards will also work. Petitions can also be collected, but letter-writing campaigns by large numbers of people are usually the most effective. Mail letters to the address below. If possible, make a copy of the letters and send us a few that we can share with the living Nisei WWII veterans and their families. Contact us for more details. Be sure to work with your teacher or professor, because they often have great ideas to help you (and you may be able to do a campaign project for class credit!).
• After writing to the stamp committee, send letters to your state and national legislators urging their support.
• Contact the local news media to urge their support. See if they would do a story on the veterans and the stamp campaign. Write an article of your own, or a “letter to the editor” and send it in to a newspaper, TV or radio news organization.
• Invite a World War II veteran to speak at your school to raise awareness about veterans’ stories. Do this in addition to other efforts to help with the campaign, like letter-writing.
• Talk with your teacher about conducting an oral history interview with a veteran for the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project. Find out how you can send in taped interviews to be stored in our nation's library.
• If you are in high school or middle school, talk with your teacher about expanding your study by creating a research project on the Nisei WWII soldiers story. Learn more about the National History Day program and possibly create a project for a local History Day competition.
• Think of your own creative ideas to help remember these veterans, through stamps and other ways. Talk with your teacher about possible projects.

Letters of Support

Send all letters of support to:

CITIZENS' STAMP ADVISORY COMMITTEE
U.S. POSTAL SERVICE - STAMP DEVELOPMENT
1735 NORTH LYNN STREET, SUITE 5013
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA 22209-6432