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Finding his mother's high school valedictorian speech

She graduated from high school in Jerome and was the class valedictorian and gave a speech. And how this showed up was not my mom telling this story but when I was doing research for this paper I had I came across her valedictory speech from a posting in the University of Arkansas archives and they had her speech– but there was tear across the bottom that basically wiped out two sentences. So anyway I had a copy of this and I go to dinner with my mother every week, every Sunday, and so I produced this for her. “Mom, here’s your speech.” And she was shocked it was even there. It was full of patriotism, it was an incredible speech. So I asked her, “Do you remember what these two missing lines were?” And she laughs at me and goes “Are you kidding?” She doesn’t remember it. At the end of dinner she tells me “I might be able to get something that will help.” Next week we go to dinner, no mention of anything, I drop her off at her house she says “Here, I did find something. You can have this.” And she handed me the 3x5 notecards, original, that she wrote from.


discursos endereço de despedida escolas escolas de ensino médio mães Universidade do Arkansas

Data: April 25, 2018

Localização Geográfica: California, US

Entrevistado: John Esaki

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevistados

Robert Fujioka nasceu em Honolulu, Havaí, em 1952. Frequentou a Universidade de Michigan obtendo o bacharelado e obteve o MBA pela Universidade do Havaí. Ele atua no setor bancário desde 1974 e atualmente atua como vice-presidente do Conselho de Administração do Museu Nacional Japonês Americano, curador da Clarence T.C. Ching Foundation e da First Hawaiian Bank Foundation. (Novembro de 2018)

Morton,Johnnie

Fazendo um discurso em japonês (Inglês)

(n. 1971) Jogador de futebol profissional.

Fukuhara,Jimmy Ko

Meeting his wife, Eileen

(n. 1921) Veterano de guerra nissei que serviu na ocupação do Japão

Ito,Willie

Mother in Camp

(n. 1934) Artista premiado de animação da Disney, encarcerado em Topaz durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial

Toyoshima,Toshiaki

Unforgettable words of my mother (Japanese)

(n. 1949) Sushi Chef. Proprietário do “Sushi Gen” em Little Tokyo, Los Angeles