Hawaii’s Plantation Village’s Awards Dinner

I attended the Hawaii’s Plantation Village’s Awards Dinner at Hale Ikena in Fort Shafter on Saturday, September 26, 2009 from 5:30 P.M. to 9:00 P.M. after I spent the day at Hawaii’s Seniors’ Fair at Neal S. Blaisdell Center.  I presented House certificates to the awardees and made a short speech: “There is one phrase that summarizes everything.  It is a a Japanese phrase, okage sama de.  We are who we are because of the leaders before us and the leaders before them.  Okage sama de, domo arigatou gozaimashita.”