Part of JAVA contingent in the 2013 National Memorial Day Parade down Constitution Avenue. Marching behind President Gerald Yamada are GO FOR BROKE banner carriers Peter and Jack Wakatake; color bearers Maj Kenny Kuniyuki, US Army, Lt. Jason Osuga, US Navy, Lt. Janelle Kuroda, US Navy Reserve; and behind them are Lt. Colonel Mark Nakagawa, USA (Ret) and Lt Colonel Kay Wakatake, US Army. In the background is the Ellipse, the outer south lawn of the White House, where President Harry Truman reviewed the 442nd RCT on July 15, 1946. Photo by Jim McCullumLedivina Largado, originally from the Philippines, will celebrate the Fourth of July this year as a citizen. A leader at the Mother Butler Guild in Tenleytown, D.C. she had her oath-taking ceremony as a US citizen last month.Washington, D.C.. Students network at Conference on Asian Pacific American Leaderships (CAPAL) Washington Leadership Program Opening on June 12, 2013. Photo by Will KimChange of command ceremony. L-R: Rear Adm. Sean A. Pybus, Adm. William H. McRaven, and Rear Adm. Brian L. Losey, San Diego, California. Rear Admiral Brian L. Losey, a member of the Japanese American Veterans Association (JAVA), relieved Rear Admiral Sean A. Pybus as commander, Naval Special Warfare Command (CNSWC) during a change of command ceremony at Naval Amphibious Base, Coronado, California on June 21, 2013.Author HeatherAsh Amara shares a Toltec slant on detachment at Buddhafest.Director Johanna Lunn answers audience questions after the screening of her documentary, An Uncommon King, about Mipham Rinpoche, a Tibetan spiritual king in the Shambhala tradition of Buddhism.
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