Events for May 1, 2024

WHERE YOU STAND: CHINATOWN 1880 TO 1939 (你所處的位置: 唐人街 1880 年至 1939 年) Waiting Room Gallery Visit the new exhibit in Union Station. CHSSC provided support for this project. Union […]

Ken Fong will share stories of his late father, James King Fong, a bona fided war hero, having flown 38 missions over Germany during WWII. But when the majority of Americans—even those of Chinese or Asian descent—think about who put on the uniforms and risked their lives to defeat the Axis powers, they don’t think of his father or the nearly 20,000 other Americans of Chinese descent who also served and fought.

  Ken grew up badgering his dad to share his war stories, and he will tell a few of the most memorable ones during our May program so that ABC’s […]