Dr. Leo V. Kanawada, Jr. was born in Flushing, New York, and educated at Bucknell University, the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, and at St. John’s University where he received his Ph.D. in History.
After serving as a decorated captain of infantry, United States Army, with the Second Infantry Division in 1966 in South Korea and in the Vietnam War in 1967 with the 71st Assault Helicopter Company and as a platoon leader with the 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Division, Kanawada returned to his hometown and taught in the Department of History at Hicksville High School and in the Hicksville Public Schools for thirty years.
While teaching in his hometown, Dr. Kanawada became a member, an elder, and president of his church, The Parkway community Church, in Hicksville, New York. He served not only on the governing board of his church for thirty years but also served as a member of the Classis of Nassau and Suffolk County, the governing body for the Reformed Church of America on Long Island.
Author of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Diplomacy, Something Worthwhile, the five-volume series The Holocaust Diaries, Captain Infantry, The Jubilee Jamboree, and George Clinton, he is cited in Who’s Who in New York, Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, and in the Directory of American Scholars. Leo V. Kanawada, Jr., lives with his wife, Carol, in Long Island, New York.
