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NONFICTION Slighted heroes Honor before Glory By Scott McGaugh 304 pp. Da Capo Reviewed by William C. Crawford American exceptionalism often plays out through our sordid treatment of our most loyal but vulnerable citizens. The US under attack often creates opportunity for our wrongly maligned patriots to erase, without doubt, any question as to their commitment to America. The imprisonment of solid Japanese-American citizens during World War II is now a well-known if seamy chapter in our history. I recently visited the museum at the windswept former internment camp in California known as Manzanar. One of the most telling if ironic features on exhibit there were the faded photos of young Japanese-American GIs in uniform returning to Manzanar to visit their captive parents. The heroic stories of Nisei soldiers in the European theater and Burma are only recently an emerging theme in the annals of World War II history. Honor before Glory brings long overdue light to the little known heroi...