Toll Seike Full Narrative

Private Toll Seike is the only Nisei (second-generation Japanese) soldier to be found among the WSC WW2 war dead.  A graduate of Highline High School in Burien, Washington, Toll studied Business Administration for two years at WSC from 1940-42 before being interned with his family in three separate camps as part of the wartime internment (or incarceration) of approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans.   In early 1944 he enlisted in the U.S. Army, eventually serving with the famous all-Japanese 442nd Regimental Combat Team.  Toll was killed in France in late October 1944.  Today he is remembered through a memorial garden within the larger Highline Botanical Gardens in SeaTac, Washington.