Kim,
Thank you to a tremendous corporate partner with the AAPI community! I greatly enjoyed reading the blog especially your ending which was so personal and had such a special message - spending time with elders, family and recording our history. If we don't record our own history, nobody will and with each passing day, our AAPI history is being lost. Thank you for including me as one of the icons, but really in the AAPI community, the 2 icons are Secretary Mineta and COngressman Honda - two of my mentors who are also mentors to thousands of AAPIs throughout the country. I hope all your readers will someday have an opportuniy to meet and hear about the personal histories of both of these men of how they and their families were treated during WWII by being put in internment camps simply because they were Japanese Americans to rise to this nation's top political leadership positions. Their life stories are what makes America the land of opportunity.
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