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Takeshi Furumoto, WWII Japanese Incarceration Survivor, Speaks at CHAH

Takeshi Furumoto visited CHAH today and told his remarkable story. Tak was born in a Japanese Incarceration camp during WWII but his spent the following few years living in Hiroshima and saw first hand the after effects of the Atomic Bomb.

Tak never lost his faith in America and returned stateside and fought for the US in the Vietnam War.

Tak spoke to the 9th grade students and told the danger of Atomic weapons and how they must be the generation to stop war! War is expensive...peace is free! Thanks so much Tak!