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AM: I'll go next, because you really triggered some memories for me. So I'm Akemi Matsumoto, I'm a Sansei, and I was born and raised in Denver, Colorado, in a very isolated Japanese American community, which is really different than growing up in Seattle. And one of the appeals of JACL is that it's a place where you can find a home no matter where you're from, because it's a Japanese American organization. And my cousin pulled me in, and I was briefly a member like in the mid '70s, and decided to drop out for a while and came back when I, as a young person, could have more of a voice. So I met Tatsuo -- I was a community college counselor, and I worked with students a lot and a lot of student groups. So I'm not quite sure when I met Tatsuo, but I easily connected with students because that sort of was my work environment. And I remember I was so impressed by him because he was... he always followed through. And that wasn't always the case with a lot of people. So I was always really grateful when he would volunteer, and he volunteered a lot, and he always followed through with what he did. And I think JACL Seattle also was a place for him to come home and really find who he was as a Japanese American. Next?

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