he received his BS in engineering in 1951 and his MS in mechanical engineering in 1952 from Stanford University.

said that her family was incarcerated at Tule Lake because they had answered no-no on the loyalty questionnaire.We are the descendants of the 1% they could not kill and the 1% that they could not take away …As the first people of Tongva of Los Angeles.

We must deserve and protect our national parks historical integrity.We’re going to have to talk about not only the atrocities happening for immigrant communities today.is that we the people have a lot of practice working together.

the National Park Service has lost nearly 25% of its staff.the terror of 1942 when families were rounded up.

was dragged out of his bed and arrested by the FBI.

and we pledge our support to those of you on the front line in protecting our parks.just like their blood flows through yours.

This is one of those Ground Zero civil rights points in the history of this country because this is where the majority of Los Angeles Japanese American families were forced to line up to board the buses that would take them to incarceration.including those chapters where we failed to live up to our own democratic ideals.

And it’s personal to me because my grandparents were rounded up on this very corner in 1942.I wholeheartedly believe in the practice of deliberating God.