you're a vietnam veteran, professor of chicano studies. you talk about the vietnam war. >> yes, i did. >> and we have this, we will talk about this in just a little bit, which is the reason why charlie is here. but tell us about your adventures. how are the locations going? give us an update, if you will. >> yeah, we have publications. it is going very slow right now. i have to readjust and redo the whole company because of the way markets are adjusting. but i will probably start publishing in a year or so again. >> you have to start tweeting and facebooking. >> facebooking and just the ebooks. and that kind of stuff. i'm also doing film and video. so that also -- >> because you were working on a documentary the last time we soak. >> yes, we spoke about a documentary on the mexican robin hood. >> right. >> and i haven't been able to get sufficient funds to finish it. but i've been working on that one. so i'm also trying to make a

feature film of my novel "gone from illusion." we have some hollywood bites. so we are still working on it. i'm doing different projects. >> that's great. give me your take. ed with mike salas and other veterans here a while back. they are erecting a statue, a monument, in memory of the fallen soldiers from vietnam. how critical is it to have splg like that here? those who were -- the sons of san jose, it's called. those who were kia in vietnam. >> you're right. symbolically, that's one of the reasons i'm starting this project flags. but i'm doing it from -- shall we say, with the fallen soldiers from japan, too. we were all soldiers, you know. and so, that's -- it is a recognition of the sacrifices that people have done, but also recognition that we pay a high price and we have to think hard

about going to war, as far as i'm concerned. >> you're a prime example, because correct me if i'm wrong, the war is not over for you. you are still going through issues. >> yes. my father was. world war ii veterans that i've known. a different culture, different generation. like my father suffered from post traumatic stress disorder, as far as i'm concerned. he would get flashbacks and gets into deep depressions. even though he would never admit it. earth oth and other veterans i saw droe growing pup so other cultures in society, coming back tainted, so to say. >> so you came back with a purple heart. some say that you also deserve a purple heart for the scars within. ptsd and sort. >> what i've been able to do is

turn that energy and negative feelings into doing something positive. and that's what -- it actually helped me in that way, when i can channel that into doing things like publishing or like this project that i'm doing, and film projects. it helps me in that way. >> that's great. hold up your father's picture, if you will. tell us about your dd and this flag had great significance to him. >> yes. this picture was taken in 1923 when he went into the army and he was stationed in new guinea during world war ii. and this flag he kept all the years. >> he took it from -- >> the fallen japanese soldiers. i had the flag translated and it has the name of what they figured out. because it has two different kinds of writing. old writing. i think they call it kanji and more modern writing. it is like a personal flag where a guy's buddy signed it.

these guys are from the prefecture of kyoto, the old japanese capitol. and they -- there is a death poem on there and that is blood right there. so i'm trying to return it back to the families as a gesture of peace and friendship between our peoples. >> and the mercury news so eloquently put it in an article about you, that why you are doing it. because these men, if you didn't kill them, they would kill you. >> yes. that's what soldiers do to one another. actually, it is nothing personal. but it is personal. but the thing is, that families suffer the same. their loved ones, they die. it is all the same. we are all human beings. i remember one annecdote during world war i, they had troops on christmas day. they got together and drank together and they were friends. and after the truce -- so we are

all the same, basically. >> i want to keep talking about this in our next segment. charlie is from chusma house publications. maybe you can help him with husband publication and get him on the right track.

we are back here with charlie from chusma house publications. charlie is here with a flag from his father and veterans. so you had the flag translated, and it said, what, that tugged at your heart? >> well, they signed it and the patriotic, the cause and i believe it had a death poem on there. and when the research that i have done, it, the one person told me, from who is japanese-american, told me that

since it has blood, it is probably very sacred momento. but i want to take it back to the families theirselves. i've been in touch with the japanese cons late through stanford university and the japanese cons late through san francisco. they are willing to take it, but they can't guarantee anything. i want to take it back myself personally. and i will. i have to do the research and it will take me a while. i got good leads. i got the guys' names. i know where they are. so i have to understand where to go about it. i also asked one mif friends who is in academics to japanese culture, and i said, is this an insult? you have to be sensitive. he said, of course, there are families that don't want to deal with it, but it is not an insult. >> it is like a nomination for the nobel peace prize. >> well, i just hope it makes people think. and unify us as people.

>> will it put you at ease personally for what you have experienced? >> yes. it would put me at ease. it is not my main reason, but it'll help that level. and because, it'll put me at ease and because you know, trying to work for peace and that's the gesture. i'm not going to save the world and i don't know how much of an affect it will have. but it is something. and i've talked to some people, young japanese -- guys from japan, two that live here. they told me that it will help the youth over there too because they forgot about the war. they don't know what is going on. so i think it may help in that way too. and here too. and to honor my father and the soldiers who fought in world war ii. in the pacific and elsewhere, of course. >> this is something that you think your father would want at this stage? >> oh, yeah. he went through his house. that's the first thing he would show you.

and his war things and all that. >> it is something that obviously goes back a generation with you. and your family. you don't want to keep it at home. you don't want to frame it or do anything. because this to you is more sacred than anything else. >> yes. i would like to return it to the families. or at least return it to a museum or something. so it can be recognized. at home it is okay. but it is just there. i think my father would be really happy this i'm doing this. >> you mentioned something to joe in his article and he said that they are fighting for an imperial power, if you will. what was your take on that? >> well, i was too. you know. but i was doing my duty. like everyone else. i still change my political perspective. but that's what they were thinking too. so all of the soldiers are

thinking that. and we have something in common, our enemies, we have more in common than we think. >> you think because of the gi forum and other organizations like that, are we crtreating ou latino veterans better than when you were serving. >> well, all veterans, yeah. there is also a need for improvement. there are a lot of suicides going on right now. a lot of the homeless vets. so there is a lot happening. but we get recognition for the problem with that, compared to before. i knew world war ii veterans and korean veterans in my own extended family. i had a couple of uncles that fought in korea as well bp they had a lot of problems and there wasn't much help for them. they suffered all their lives. >> charley, good luck on your

adventure to get this flag back to japan. if you would like it get a hold of charley for his biographies or the case he is dealing with with the flag, or anything else. chusma house, how did you come up with chusma house, charley? >> i had to. to publish my book. >> but the name, chusma house? >> oh, it is for the riffraff. it could be riffraff. >> always a pleasure. >> great. >> up next, the cheryl burke dance studios, bring a koergography form. here you go little man.

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they are with the cheryl burke dance studio out of mountain view. and they have a great performance. they highlighted it at the san pablo fourth of july festival. here are kenneth and sophia with

the cheryl burke dance studio. welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> whose idea was it? such a classic tune that 40 years later, you hear it on -- >> all the time. >> yeah. >> well, my father is part of one of the organizers, so he asked me if i wanted to participate. we started off with the carnival festival in may. then they announced who would be the king/queen. then the 4th of july was wednesday bp so we participated in it. i've done it before but this time they requested a song. and they asked us to do the whole song. so i got a call the next day and i was like yes, yes, we'll do it. i thought i could edit because it is a 6:46 song and that's a lot of dancing. so for one routine. and then the next day, then we were asked to do the whole song. and i went okay, well, that's a

lot of material. >> that's great. we will show you clip. do you have something special with that song. >> yes. way back when, my father dedicated the song to my mother when they got engaged. and so i asked her, do you know this song. she said, do i know it? why are you asking me? >> were you reading my diary. >> she said, papa dedicated that song to me. >> we will show you the dance inets entirety in its next segment. but the dance is so sensual. describe that routine for us, if you will. >> well, what we understood it -- well, when he was in high school, i guess actually -- because he wrote the song and he sang the song. it was really pretty much about how he was in love with this girl and then she pretty much broke his heart because she didn't really give -- almost like he didn't exist. but if you listen to the lyrics, it is not a sad song.

it actually showcasees a lot of love. >> right. >> so that's what, that's what our interpretation of the whole routine did. and we have outside coaches and we do training. so part of our own interpretation of the whole music putting it together was trying to follow along with the lines. especially when we found out he was going to sing it live, i was like okay, any more pressure. >> how much in sync did both of you have to be to make this work? >> not only for this routine, but all of the other ones. >> you know, well, it is basically sharing the same passion drive and connect together meaning of the song. but also connecting to people together to represent art and expression of creativity. so just like with any art form. but this one is in particular because all of the senses are involved, right? and you are sharing the experience with everyone else on an auditory, visual, emotional

lufl level. so not something that just we experience but others through our dancing too. >> our goal was to try to recreate a fantasy of what this whole song was about. because he never actually was able to get that girl, and that's what he announces -- >> and never says a name. >> never mentions a name at all. no. >> is this what folks can, for instance, those of us that have two left feet, can you get rid of one of the left feet? >> absolutely. yes, yes. >> practice. >> lots of people like that come in. and basically, it is something for everyone to enjoy. there's not a person that's not able to try it out and make it work for them. >> are you feeling it when you're doing your dance? are you feeling it, feeling the words, lyrics and -- >> of course. >> that's what drives you. you know, it is just like me, i'm big on music. if you play a really beautiful

song and it has to do with any stifle dancing, you know, and then that's what drives me. that's what directs me as far as where i move on the floor. if you put on something that doesn't touch me heart, it is almost like it's fake. >> do you ever think when you're dancing, that oh, my god, i can't believe we did two spins instead of one. >> it is very intuitive. when you start dancing, you almost start feeling the same thing. and it is a different experience dancing with different people, of course. so depending on who you share that experience. it is different. but usually you are so in tune into the music and you feel the same thing, we are portraying something in particular and evoking that. >> and you both choreographed this. and how long did it take to you perfect it? >> we spent less than a month. >> wow. >> yeah. no, it was crash course. >> so this is something you will take on the road.

>> we have a voe case on sawing 25th at the mountain view, at the shoreline. we have a showcase, so it'll be a lot of performances that day. hopefully we can bring that back. >> good luck. there with the cheryl burke dance studio. the web address is there for more information and a direct phone number. give them a call. maybe you can dance as well as they do at some point, if you have ftwo left feet. turn one into the

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all right, here is 0ur address for next week. there is my twitter handle. let us know how you are feeling if you have any sulgtingses for the show. we thank you for being a part of our sunday once again. we want to mention once again that kenneth and sophia are also dancers and performers but are also instructors at cheryl burke dance studio. now here is their corography. ♪ ♪ ♪

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