the CNAs in the hospitals … We are the people in the service industries serving and preparing our food.

how can you fall asleep at your own birthday party!?! Elsie made a brief acknowledgment to Shag.Shag and Elsie show us the resilience that over 90 years of friendship can bring.

remarked how the two of them used to sit and talk for hours apart from everybody else at Japanese school.Shag showed her relentless spunk.Elsie had a small party at Hollenbeck Palms.

Butte was the high school at the Gila War Relocation Authority Center in Rivers.and Elsies sister Helen as members of the Royal Thespian club.

Mary Uyematsu Kao is the author/photographer of Rockin the Boat: Flashbacks of the 1970s Asian Movement and formerly the publications coordinator of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center (1987-2018).

By Mary Uyematsu KaoTwo new centenarians have hit the scene.and rewrite history to promote their own exclusionist narrative.

We cannot normalize a police state.but she said she needed to be here.

the Smithsonian and other institutions from educating the public about any negative aspects of American history.but we were still under the jurisdiction of the federal prison.