Christmas Persuasive Speech

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What does Pearl Harbor, Juneau Alaska, WW2, and City Cafe have to do with the true meaning of Christmas? Please read on and I hope you will see connection. But first you will need a bit of history. Let’s begin back in the year 1900. My grandfather, Shonosuke Tanaka, was just 19 years old when he immigrated to the USA to work the railroads from Montana to Washington. After this he was a cook’s helper in Seattle, Washington. Gold was discovered in Juneau 1880 and maybe he followed the prospectors there, but instead of gold he used his cooking skill to establish his restaurant in 1907 called the Star Cafe on Front Street. By 1912 he moved the restaurant now called “City Café”, moved to South Franklin Street. In 1922 he went back to Japan