00:00:06.770 --> 00:00:09.640
(water splashing)

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(ship horn)

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(ship horn)

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(water splashing continues)

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(mysterious music playing)

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(bird chirping)

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(music continues)

00:02:18.930 --> 00:02:20.770
(music abates)

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(Ignace Jang plays “Song of Hope”)

00:05:24.950 --> 00:05:29.960
(music abates)

00:05:34.960 --> 00:05:42.640
(car passing)

00:05:51.080 --> 00:05:54.620
(rhythmical piano playing)

00:05:57.620 --> 00:06:01.160
(violin intensifies)

00:06:43.060 --> 00:06:45.030
(music softens)

00:06:46.470 --> 00:06:50.640
(Ignace Jang plays “When the Spring Comes”)

00:08:34.580 --> 00:08:39.710
(music abates)

00:08:44.920 --> 00:08:49.820
(ship horn)

00:08:53.590 --> 00:08:57.160
(dramatic piano playing)

00:09:33.300 --> 00:09:38.970
(Ignace Jang plays “Evergreen Tree”)

00:10:58.550 --> 00:11:04.330
(piano intensifies)

00:12:18.100 --> 00:12:20.470
(music abates)

00:12:30.750 --> 00:12:32.950
(water splashing)

00:12:37.650 --> 00:12:41.190
(ship horn)

00:12:43.290 --> 00:12:46.830
(crowd talking)

00:13:13.020 --> 00:13:16.560
(door creaking)

00:13:31.040 --> 00:13:32.470
When I was a little boy

00:13:33.110 --> 00:13:36.840
my grandmother showed me
an old, tarnished brass bowl

00:13:37.340 --> 00:13:38.350
with a cover

00:13:38.810 --> 00:13:40.820
She said she brought it from Korea

00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:42.880
when she traveled to Hawaii

00:13:43.220 --> 00:13:44.750
to marry my grandfather

00:13:45.750 --> 00:13:47.150
She was born in Korea

00:13:47.690 --> 00:13:48.560
from Gaesung

00:13:49.260 --> 00:13:50.930
And when she was seventeen years old

00:13:51.130 --> 00:13:53.630
she got on the boat, the Chi-Chi Maru

00:13:54.300 --> 00:13:58.130
at Jemulpo port in Incheon for Hawaii

00:13:58.530 --> 00:13:59.830
She told me the story

00:14:00.270 --> 00:14:02.340
why she had come to Hawaii

00:14:03.870 --> 00:14:05.140
In the old days

00:14:05.540 --> 00:14:08.710
Koreans called Hawaii ‘Powa’

00:14:27.090 --> 00:14:27.860
Gary

00:14:28.160 --> 00:14:30.870
You asked me what it was
like growing up in Korea

00:14:32.330 --> 00:14:34.000
I don’t remember growing up

00:14:34.900 --> 00:14:38.070
I was told my parents died
when I was four years old

00:14:39.070 --> 00:14:41.280
I cannot remember my parents

00:14:42.610 --> 00:14:45.450
I was placed in an orphanage

00:14:47.110 --> 00:14:48.250
And later

00:14:49.020 --> 00:14:52.320
I worked as a servant in a
house of my mother’s friend

00:14:52.620 --> 00:14:55.320
The woman of the house
told me when I was older

00:14:55.620 --> 00:14:57.420
what had happened to my parents

00:14:57.760 --> 00:14:59.330
They were teachers

00:15:00.190 --> 00:15:03.900
and they were killed by Japanese

00:15:05.400 --> 00:15:08.040
That’s all I know what happened

00:15:08.640 --> 00:15:10.640
After a few years working in that house

00:15:11.640 --> 00:15:13.210
I was asked

00:15:13.540 --> 00:15:16.080
if I wanted to go to Powa

00:15:16.310 --> 00:15:19.550
and be a wife to a Korean immigrant worker

00:15:20.410 --> 00:15:22.280
What could I do?

00:15:24.850 --> 00:15:27.520
The woman at the Christian
orphanage told me

00:15:29.720 --> 00:15:34.660
Ok Soon, this is an opportunity
to start a new life

00:15:37.100 --> 00:15:39.030
So I made the decision to go

00:15:41.140 --> 00:15:43.900
What else could I do?

00:15:45.840 --> 00:15:48.610
I exchanged photos with
a man whom I did not know

00:15:49.540 --> 00:15:52.350
He was to be my husband

00:15:53.380 --> 00:15:56.350
Will my husband be
handsome like the photo?

00:15:58.350 --> 00:15:59.890
I should not even wish for this

00:16:00.150 --> 00:16:01.590
A husband is a husband

00:16:02.490 --> 00:16:05.190
I will cherish that I have a husband

00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:09.600
I will be a good wife and
serve my husband well

00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:11.430
A very good wife

00:16:11.970 --> 00:16:15.600
I have no memories
to weigh me down

00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:19.910
Days before I was to go to
the Jemulpo Port in Incheon

00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:22.710
the woman of the house I worked at
summoned me to her room

00:16:25.810 --> 00:16:26.680
Ok Soon

00:16:27.310 --> 00:16:31.350
I was a friend of your mother

00:16:32.590 --> 00:16:35.920
I have kept one of your mother’s
possessions all this time

00:16:36.160 --> 00:16:37.730
and now I want to give it to you

00:16:39.060 --> 00:16:42.360
That’s when she unfolded
a small bundle

00:16:42.860 --> 00:16:45.200
to show a shiny brass
bowl with a cover

00:16:45.700 --> 00:16:47.300
This was from your parents’ home

00:16:47.770 --> 00:16:48.440
Ok Soon

00:16:49.100 --> 00:16:51.010
Take this with you to Powa

00:16:51.240 --> 00:16:55.210
and keep it filled with rice

00:16:56.410 --> 00:16:57.580
She told me

00:16:57.980 --> 00:16:59.550
I was the only child

00:16:59.810 --> 00:17:02.280
and too young to remember

00:17:03.020 --> 00:17:05.720
what happened to my parents

00:17:06.450 --> 00:17:08.960
Maybe this was good

00:17:09.320 --> 00:17:11.790
Maybe I have a brother and sister

00:17:12.230 --> 00:17:15.100
and their lives were
taken by the Japanese

00:17:15.830 --> 00:17:17.900
Even just thinking of it is horrifying

00:17:18.500 --> 00:17:20.530
I was too small for painful memories

00:17:21.570 --> 00:17:23.670
too small to hold grudges

00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:26.940
that will control my life forever

00:17:28.510 --> 00:17:29.240
But now

00:17:29.510 --> 00:17:30.640
I will start my memories

00:17:30.910 --> 00:17:34.680
with a husband whom
I never met in a new land

00:17:35.180 --> 00:17:36.780
The woman of the house said

00:17:37.380 --> 00:17:37.990
Ok Soon

00:17:38.350 --> 00:17:40.490
Now you will start a new life

00:17:40.690 --> 00:17:42.820
And you will have this bowl with you

00:17:43.090 --> 00:17:44.590
Keep this filled with rice

00:17:45.490 --> 00:17:49.660
And you and your loved ones
will never suffer from hunger

00:17:50.230 --> 00:17:52.230
It will bring you good fortune

00:17:53.030 --> 00:17:56.400
The spirit of your mother
lives in this bowl

00:17:56.670 --> 00:17:58.210
She will always be with you

00:18:01.710 --> 00:18:06.650
(calm piano playing)

00:18:13.690 --> 00:18:18.130
(Richard Yongjae O’Neill plays “Danny Boy”)

00:21:38.590 --> 00:21:43.130
(music abates)

00:21:54.210 --> 00:21:56.940
I remember my grandmother, my Halmeoni

00:21:57.780 --> 00:21:59.550
was very loving to me

00:22:00.280 --> 00:22:02.850
I remember seeing her after
she washed her hair

00:22:04.120 --> 00:22:05.450
which she did in a daytime

00:22:05.820 --> 00:22:07.490
when the Hawaiian sun was strong

00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:09.590
so it could dry her long hair

00:22:10.660 --> 00:22:13.390
She always wore hair in a Madonna bun

00:22:14.130 --> 00:22:16.560
But she would let her hair down
when she washed it

00:22:16.960 --> 00:22:21.000
And it was long and wavy and beautiful

00:22:21.970 --> 00:22:23.640
When she let her hair down

00:22:24.070 --> 00:22:26.340
She looked like she was a young woman again

00:22:27.240 --> 00:22:31.280
And I used to wonder what her life was
in Korea when she was young

00:22:35.220 --> 00:22:37.820
Halmeoni was a wonderful cook

00:22:38.290 --> 00:22:41.790
She always made me my favorite food
when I visited her

00:22:42.660 --> 00:22:44.120
She knew I liked meat

00:22:44.730 --> 00:22:46.530
And she would fry me a big steak

00:22:46.790 --> 00:22:48.930
In her black cast iron pan

00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:52.370
And her Kimchi was so delicious

00:22:53.470 --> 00:22:58.670
She would make Kimchi in a large
galvanized tub for the entire family

00:23:00.310 --> 00:23:01.240
I remember one day

00:23:01.580 --> 00:23:03.780
she came to stay with us for a few days

00:23:04.480 --> 00:23:05.410
And one afternoon

00:23:05.650 --> 00:23:08.120
we sat on the back steps of our house

00:23:08.450 --> 00:23:10.550
And she began stabbing at and eating

00:23:10.850 --> 00:23:12.850
the ants running in the doorway

00:23:15.790 --> 00:23:16.420
Gary

00:23:17.690 --> 00:23:19.190
Eat these ants

00:23:20.030 --> 00:23:21.130
Ants are strong

00:23:21.400 --> 00:23:25.100
If you eat these ants,
you will become as strong

00:23:26.270 --> 00:23:29.640
I began eating as many ants
as I could catch

00:23:30.100 --> 00:23:33.310
Cause I wanted to be big and strong

00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:37.680
We struggled

00:23:38.250 --> 00:23:39.850
but we survived

00:23:40.550 --> 00:23:42.320
I gave birth to twelve children

00:23:42.920 --> 00:23:45.850
but two died when they were babies

00:23:47.450 --> 00:23:53.660
Your grandfather used to work 6 days
a week from 6 in the morning to 6 at night

00:23:55.500 --> 00:23:59.370
But somehow, even with
so many mouths to feed

00:24:00.130 --> 00:24:01.400
we were able to save a little bit of money

00:24:01.740 --> 00:24:07.140
and we still gave $1 a month to
the Korean independence movement

00:24:08.940 --> 00:24:10.910
It made me feel good and proud

00:24:12.750 --> 00:24:13.780
My homeland

00:24:15.120 --> 00:24:16.580
My country

00:24:21.460 --> 00:24:22.860
Your grandfather and I,

00:24:23.260 --> 00:24:26.230
we leased a farm lot in Kolekole Pass

00:24:26.830 --> 00:24:30.830
And near our home was
where watercress grew wild

00:24:31.700 --> 00:24:34.370
We used to harvest that for food

00:24:34.900 --> 00:24:36.670
When times were better, once a month

00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:39.040
we used to eat meat

00:24:40.140 --> 00:24:42.640
All of our vegetables we raised ourselves

00:24:43.140 --> 00:24:47.050
And we bought canned sardines
and rice from the company store

00:24:49.820 --> 00:24:52.350
When I made Kimchi from
the vegetables we grew

00:24:52.620 --> 00:24:57.760
I used to flavor it with Bagoong,
you know, Filipino fermented fish sauce

00:25:01.130 --> 00:25:04.970
Sometimes my husband used to buy dried
cod, the kind the Portuguese people eat

00:25:05.530 --> 00:25:09.140
We used to make “pugo” from cod’s skin

00:25:09.670 --> 00:25:13.140
and we ate it with water rice

00:25:13.670 --> 00:25:16.610
Oh... so yummy

00:25:17.510 --> 00:25:22.620
I was happy that we could keep
the brass bowl filled with rice

00:25:23.080 --> 00:25:25.620
Later, I became a writer

00:25:26.150 --> 00:25:30.190
and I asked Halmeoni to
tell me more about her life

00:25:32.030 --> 00:25:33.030
Oh no, Gary...

00:25:33.360 --> 00:25:34.660
Don’t write about me

00:25:35.100 --> 00:25:36.660
Nobody is curious about my life

00:25:37.160 --> 00:25:42.140
Write about something popular,

00:25:42.770 --> 00:25:44.470
about someone who is famous

00:25:45.070 --> 00:25:47.910
someone everyone wants to know about

00:25:49.580 --> 00:25:51.310
Write about a saint

00:25:51.910 --> 00:25:55.550
or an engineer who built a huge bridge

00:25:56.320 --> 00:26:01.090
Or an architect who made
a plan for a building

00:26:01.520 --> 00:26:02.190
And

00:26:02.460 --> 00:26:08.430
a rich person who owns
many, many acres of land

00:26:08.730 --> 00:26:09.960
Don’t write about me

00:26:11.900 --> 00:26:14.230
I am just a poor farmer’s wife

00:26:14.970 --> 00:26:18.100
We had a hard time
putting food on the table

00:26:18.510 --> 00:26:19.710
The hunger,

00:26:20.810 --> 00:26:22.280
the humiliation,

00:26:22.810 --> 00:26:25.250
and the embarrassment

00:26:26.110 --> 00:26:31.480
of sometimes not having a nickel
to give my children for lunch

00:26:32.490 --> 00:26:38.220
I had to let my children leave
home hungry for school

00:26:38.690 --> 00:26:39.890
About the pain

00:26:40.630 --> 00:26:43.230
the deep pain...

00:26:44.130 --> 00:26:46.070
Seeing their thin bodies wanting food

00:26:46.500 --> 00:26:51.000
I could not give

00:26:51.340 --> 00:26:55.840
The deep pain of seeing their long faces

00:26:56.180 --> 00:26:58.280
Please don’t write about that

00:27:00.980 --> 00:27:03.320
And about my two children

00:27:04.250 --> 00:27:07.750
whom I lost before they could
even learn to see the world...

00:27:08.290 --> 00:27:12.460
Please don’t write about
how I felt most terribly then

00:27:16.200 --> 00:27:18.530
If you still want to write about me

00:27:19.030 --> 00:27:21.070
write about my joy

00:27:21.600 --> 00:27:25.640
watching my children when
they graduated from high school

00:27:26.610 --> 00:27:29.740
Write about my joy of cooking
a steak in my frying pan

00:27:30.040 --> 00:27:35.780
to feed you and your cousins

00:27:36.180 --> 00:27:41.020
and my joy watching you eat the steak

00:27:44.020 --> 00:27:45.830
Write about my joy watching
you and your cousins

00:27:46.160 --> 00:27:48.630
grow big and strong

00:27:51.900 --> 00:27:53.300
Write about my happiness

00:27:53.900 --> 00:27:55.470
to see you graduate from high school

00:27:55.840 --> 00:28:02.880
and then go to a big
university on the mainland

00:28:05.150 --> 00:28:06.950
Write about my joy

00:28:07.980 --> 00:28:10.550
to watch my grandchildren sleep peacefully

00:28:11.050 --> 00:28:17.220
while I sing a song from my childhood

00:28:19.760 --> 00:28:27.170
(Lim Ok Soon humming)

00:28:41.350 --> 00:28:47.850
(Richard Yongjae O’Neill plays
“Thinking of My Brother”)

00:31:00.850 --> 00:31:09.900
(music abates)

00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:23.510
My grandmother, Lim Ok Soon

00:31:24.110 --> 00:31:25.850
couldn’t return to her homeland

00:31:26.380 --> 00:31:30.120
Because her home village was in
a country that became North Korea

00:31:30.780 --> 00:31:32.420
The borders were closed

00:31:32.820 --> 00:31:35.050
And nobody could enter the country

00:31:35.660 --> 00:31:39.460
But yes, the brass bowl
Lim Ok Soon brought from Korea

00:31:39.790 --> 00:31:42.500
when she first came to
Hawaii as a picture bride

00:31:42.830 --> 00:31:45.200
is now always filled with rice

00:31:46.070 --> 00:31:48.600
Her children and grandchildren

00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:50.870
and great grandchildren

00:31:51.240 --> 00:31:53.670
and great great grandchildren

00:31:54.140 --> 00:31:58.210
had enough to eat and had
comfortable beds to sleep in

00:31:58.650 --> 00:31:59.310
Ellie

00:32:00.210 --> 00:32:04.220
Here is where your great great
grandmother is resting

00:32:05.050 --> 00:32:08.120
She came from Korea
at the turn of the century

00:32:08.890 --> 00:32:11.390
many years ago

00:32:13.030 --> 00:32:19.700
(Richard Yongjae O’Neill plays
“Amazing Arirang”)

00:36:14.630 --> 00:36:19.670
(music abates)

00:36:26.050 --> 00:36:29.750
(ship horn)

00:36:31.980 --> 00:36:37.820
(crowd talking)

00:36:59.710 --> 00:37:03.920
(door creaking)

00:37:20.900 --> 00:37:26.340
(water splashing)

00:37:31.940 --> 00:37:37.650
(dark music playing)

00:38:05.780 --> 00:38:09.850
(music intensifies)

00:39:29.030 --> 00:39:34.870
(ominous music playing)

00:40:11.070 --> 00:40:14.210
The sheer beauty is very humbling

00:40:14.640 --> 00:40:20.550
But as a musician, what you observe
are the sounds of Kalaupapa

00:40:21.050 --> 00:40:24.220
The rain, the wind, the ocean...

00:40:24.850 --> 00:40:28.890
Then you step into the cemetery,
and you hear the silence

00:40:29.390 --> 00:40:35.560
The music we provide, I hope can become
part of the sounds of Kalaupapa

00:40:46.340 --> 00:40:53.050
(Chee-Yun, Keola Beamer, Ignace Jang plays
"Going Home Where the Clouds Float Away")

00:46:01.920 --> 00:46:08.290
I was given so much and my ancestors
paved the way for me to be here

00:46:08.530 --> 00:46:15.570
If I could do anything to console their
souls, I want to be a part of that

00:46:16.470 --> 00:46:19.910
And I think that’s my duty as a musician

00:46:40.460 --> 00:46:41.430
Imagine

00:46:41.690 --> 00:46:44.400
All of these people, especially immigrants

00:46:44.700 --> 00:46:47.270
Leaving their homes, coming to Hawaii

00:46:47.530 --> 00:46:51.500
being stricken by this disease,
and whisked away to Kalaupapa

00:46:51.740 --> 00:46:53.270
That was a real struggle

00:46:53.570 --> 00:46:56.280
And so they formed these small communities

00:46:56.640 --> 00:47:01.450
where they found people who had like
to keep up one another’s spirits

00:48:16.260 --> 00:48:19.960
Our ancestors here,
challenged by life circumstances

00:48:20.230 --> 00:48:23.060
had to reinvent their lives from nothing

00:48:23.500 --> 00:48:28.170
It’s the testament to the
resilient spirit of human nature

00:48:28.730 --> 00:48:32.700
As a little boy, my mom
would always remind me

00:48:32.940 --> 00:48:34.740
She would say ‘Mālama Ko Aloha’

00:48:35.040 --> 00:48:37.540
It means cherish your love

00:48:38.010 --> 00:48:42.250
And it was mom’s way of reminding us
that Aloha was more than a word

00:48:42.710 --> 00:48:44.750
It’s a way of being in the world

00:48:45.050 --> 00:48:49.350
Aloha means peace, love, and forgiveness

00:49:02.100 --> 00:49:08.810
(Chee-Yun, Keola Beamer,
Ignace Jang plays "Aloha ‘Oe")

00:52:28.570 --> 00:52:33.650
(♪ Aloha ‘oe ♪)

00:52:34.280 --> 00:52:39.350
(♪ Aloha ‘oe ♪)

00:52:39.750 --> 00:52:44.390
(♪ E ke onaona noho ♪)

00:52:45.090 --> 00:52:49.290
(♪ i ka lipo ♪)

00:52:50.700 --> 00:52:55.700
(♪ One fond embrace ♪)

00:52:56.130 --> 00:53:00.910
(♪ A ho'i a'e au ♪)

00:53:01.740 --> 00:53:09.710
(♪ Until we meet again ♪)

00:53:12.380 --> 00:53:18.290
(♪ Until we meet ♪)

00:53:20.260 --> 00:53:23.730
(♪ again ♪)

00:53:25.800 --> 00:53:31.140
(♪ again ♪)

00:53:57.630 --> 00:54:04.670
("The Water is Wide" by Sumi Jo)

00:54:26.120 --> 00:54:31.900
(♪ The Water is Wide ♪)

00:54:32.600 --> 00:54:37.100
(♪ I can’t cross over ♪)

00:54:39.270 --> 00:54:44.640
(♪ And neither have ♪)

00:54:46.010 --> 00:54:50.420
(♪ I wings to fly ♪)

00:54:52.550 --> 00:54:58.260
(♪ Give me a boat ♪)

00:54:59.390 --> 00:55:03.930
(♪ that can carry two ♪)

00:55:05.960 --> 00:55:10.940
(♪ And voth shall row ♪)

00:55:12.500 --> 00:55:17.980
(♪ my love and I ♪)

00:55:19.480 --> 00:55:24.550
(♪ The love is gentle ♪)

00:55:25.950 --> 00:55:31.020
(♪ and love is kind ♪)

00:55:32.660 --> 00:55:37.960
(♪ The sweetest flower ♪)

00:55:39.260 --> 00:55:40.600
(♪ when first it's... ♪)

00:55:40.870 --> 00:55:42.830
Sammy lets loose with
his most brilliant effort

00:55:43.130 --> 00:55:45.640
a running forward three
and a half somersaults

00:55:45.940 --> 00:55:48.470
And Sammy Lee, whose
parents were born in Korea

00:55:48.770 --> 00:55:52.340
becomes the first two-time
winner in Olympic diving history

00:55:52.740 --> 00:55:56.680
(♪ …and waxes cold ♪)

00:55:59.480 --> 00:56:03.420
(♪ And fades away ♪)

00:56:06.090 --> 00:56:10.360
(♪ like morning dew ♪)

00:56:48.770 --> 00:56:51.540
Made me individually proud

00:56:52.740 --> 00:56:58.080
Hopefully I believe that
Koreans would be as proud

00:57:06.050 --> 00:57:09.250
(♪ The water is wide ♪)

00:57:09.690 --> 00:57:11.960
We are Americans and proud Americans

00:57:14.030 --> 00:57:17.060
In our heart, we are from our home country

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and my home country is Korea

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(♪ And neither have ♪)

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(♪ I wings to fly ♪)

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(♪ Give me a boat ♪)

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(♪ that can carry two ♪)

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(♪ And voth shall row ♪)

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(♪ my love and I ♪)

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(♪ And voth shall row ♪)

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(♪ my love and I ♪)

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(”Song of Hope” plays)

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Being a part of something
that is so much greater

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than just what each individual can bring

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learning about the history of
all immigrants all over the world

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It is a universal topic
that affects all of us

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If the land could talk and remind us
of everything that’s happened here

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I’m sure it would tell us a lot of things

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So it’s our job to tell the
stories and keep them alive

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way past when the people
that told the stories are gone

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Our life is our own, but our life is also
of all the people that came before us

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I really like that about,
you know, that Gary goes

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and he still remembers
and he keeps it alive

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We must always be thankful

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and remember their hard work

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That’s the whole reason we are here

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Really felt that this was
a way to contribute

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to the idea of keeping
Aloha alive in the world

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and beautiful thought of
honoring our ancestors

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acknowledging the trials and
tribulations that they went through

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So today we stand on their shoulders

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An absolute honor for me
to be part of Songs of Love

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telling the stories of our ancestors here

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and doing it in a way that
really touches our hearts