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December
2004 NEWS
As
we enter this holiday season and this year's final months,
within our "Features Section" (listed on the "Right")
- we will highlight some US Asians of note.
Interesting things that occurred during the Presidential
elections
Bush
became the first president since 1988 to have more than 50% of the
popular vote |
The
Jewish community expanded their support to Bush from 19% to 24%
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The
Hispanic community increased their support to Bush from 35% to 42% |
The
Catholic community's support increased from 47% to 51% |
Voter
turnout in the 2004 U.S. presidential election of 120.2 million
was the highest since 1968, with 59.6 percent of those eligible
casting ballots and 51.1% voting for Bush, |
The
Youth Vote (21 million) was 17%, the same as in 2000 |
44%
of people who considered themselves as "Liberal" stated
that moral values were a high priority |
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APA HEROES & HISTORICAL
FIGURES
BETTY ONG - The 9/11 Commission Chairman Thomas
Kean declared: "Betty
Ong is a true American hero." He stated that "we
have to remind ourselves of exactly what it was like that
day. . . wasn't just a tragedy but a triumph ... of heroes."
The 5' 9" native of San Francisco's Chinatown was a
victim of the terrorists and the first hero of that fateful
day of September 11, 2001 where terrorist attacks killed
3,000 people in New York and Washington, DC. in the greatest
American catastrophe of modern times.
CHARLIE SOONG - Duke's 1st International student
and Methodist minister turned wealthy businessman whose
daughters married Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek
FRANCIS WAI - Captain Francis Wai (of the 34th
Regiment of the 24th Infantry division under General Douglas
MacArthur) was posthumously awarded the Congressional
Medal of Honor,: but not until 2000, after Congress had
ordered a review of the war records of Asian American
soldiers during WWII because of the Chinese Exclusion
Act of 1882 was still being enforced. The U.S. government
did not recognize Wai with the Congressional Medal of
Honor until the 1999 act of Congress that mandated a review
of war records of Asian American soldiers in World War
II. Along with 21 other Asian Americans, Wai finally received
his overdue honor in May of 2000 from former President
Bill Clinton.
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