I didn't see him again until I was almost seven. While he studied and worked hard in America, my mother, my sisters and I stayed behind. But 40 years ago, when John Kennedy won by less than one vote per precinct across America, my life was changed forever. Two months after his inauguration, President Kennedy signed an executive order that made American immigration law fairer. Six months later my family was reunited in America.
Public decisions make a difference.
Inouye mentioned how he himself was a veteran of World War II, and how it gave him a special kinship to all brothers and sisters who put their lives on the line. Al Gore is a veteran of Vietnam. He understands problems of fellow veterans, and I'm confident he would uphold America's promise to them. Gore is the candidate, after all. And unlike the National Guardsman Bush, or the deferent Cheney, Gore did serve as a journalist in the military.