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Survivors and community leaders urge Board to support comfort-women memorial; speakers stress remembrance and reconciliation
Summary
A large group of community leaders, survivors and advocacy organizations urged the board to support a memorial to women forced into sexual slavery during World War II; survivor Lee Ee Young Soo ("Grandma Lee") addressed the board and requested a memorial to help heal victims and preserve history.
Survivors, faith leaders, civil-rights groups and community supporters used the public-comment period Tuesday to urge the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to back a memorial honoring the women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.
Ee Young Soo Lee — identified in the meeting as "Grandma Lee," a survivor who traveled from Korea and a longtime activist — spoke to the board through an interpreter and asked officials to erect a memorial in San Francisco. In her remarks she described herself as "the living evidence of history" and said she came to the city to press for a memorial that she hopes will help relieve the sorrow she and…
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