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COMMITTEE MEMBERS FOR 4TH ANNUAL "EVENING OF ALOHA"
GALA DINNER
November 12 Dinner Event Features
Hawaii’s Best Chefs and Best Aloha Sounds!
(TORRANCE, Calif. - April 1, 2005) - The Go
For Broke Educational Foundation will host its 4th annual Evening
of Aloha gala dinner on Saturday, November 12, 2005. This year’s
event will feature a sit-down dinner with cuisine prepared by
world-renowned Hawaii chefs Roy Yamaguchi (Roy’s Restaurants
worldwide) and Russell Siu (3660 on the Rise/Honolulu). The dinner
committee, which is volunteer-based, has begun meeting and is
in its initial planning stages and seeks additional members who
would like to help support the Go For Broke Educational Foundation
and this fun-filled event. The committee meets monthly at the
Educational Foundation’s office in Torrance. For information,
please contact Chris Ohama at 310-222-5702 or email chris@goforbroke.org.
The Go For Broke Educational Foundation institutes educational
programs focused on the heroism and history of the Japanese American
soldiers of World War II, as well as the forced evacuation and
incarceration of Japanese Americans and civil liberties issues
raised by those events. Currently the Educational Foundation’s
programs include An American Story Teacher Training Program, Hanashi
Oral History Program, www.GoForBroke.org
educational Web site, and Resource Center.
In 1989 Japanese American World War II veterans established the
100th/442nd/MIS WWII Memorial Foundation to build the Go For Broke
Monument, which today is an eternal tribute to the heroics of
the segregated Japanese American units: 100th Infantry Battalion,
442nd Regimental Combat Team, MIS (Military Intelligence Service)
and the many other men and women who served overseas during World
War II. The Monument is located in the Little Tokyo district of
downtown Los Angeles at Temple and Alameda Streets.
