It is now a Southern California tradition.

Not only did the Secret Service do this for me.who was campaigning for president.

Most of them did not even know we were put in camp during World War II.Kazuo also traveled around the world as part of the President Protection Detail for President Nixon.I developed a hatred and distrust of people — towards the Americans for what they did to us Japanese.

From a background where all his friends were Japanese.we were people without a home.

and towards the Japanese friends who turned their backs on my mother after the death of her husband because of the hard times we were all facing.

a Chinese national attempted to assassinate Chiang Ching-kuo.Nisei Week Foundation President Joann Shin Cordeiro.

Hashimoto Community Service Award recipients Kenji Suzuki of Suehiro and Go For Broke National Education Center.Nippon Minyo Kenkyukai Hos-hun Kai.

YAMAMOTO)Photos by JUN NAGATA.and Deputy Chief of Emergency Operations (retired) David Yamahata.