Frank Tanabe knew his time was short. He was battling liver cancer, and at 93, it was clear he wasn’t going to win the fight. But Tanabe, a World War II veteran whose family spent time interred in a Japanese-American Camp in the U.S. after the attack on Pearl Harbor, had one mission left that he wanted to accomplish before his death: he wanted to vote one last time.
I’ve worked in television long enough to know that it’s pointless to utter phrases like, “Now I’ve heard everything!” But this is the kind of story, had I not learned said lesson, that might make me say such a thing.
The legendary Aretha Franklin. Jesse McCarney. Steven Tyler. Olympic Gold Medalist Carl Lewis. Roseanne Barr. And most recently, Christina Aguilera....