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Anne Schrager May 23, 2021
NASA special projects manager and retired Army Sgt. James Schwab lays a wreath at last year’s Memorial Day ceremony at the San Francisco National Cemetery. Photo: Lea Suzuki, The Chronicle 2020
Celebrated on the last Monday in May (this year, May 31) Memorial Day arrives with outdoor services and presentations to honor American soldiers who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. To mark the occasion, Bay Area organizations plan to host wreath-laying ceremonies, cemetery-side memorial services and more events to attend in person or to view online.
Along with the solemnity of the federal holiday, the three-day weekend in late spring is also full of opportunities to relax and enjoy as summer approaches.
Groundbreaker and Innovator Event
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Wednesday, July 21, Asia Society Northern California will host an off-the-record Executive Roundtable program on the Myanmar Conflict and Crisis with the
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Scot Marciel, former U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar and Visiting Scholar, Visiting Practitioner Fellow of Southeast Asia at Stanford University s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) and
Consul General Toru Maeda, Consul General of Japan in San Francisco and former Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of Japan in Myanmar. Managing Director of Asia Society Policy Institute
Debra Eisenman will moderate the discussion.
The executive roundtable discussion will assess Myanmar’s current challenges, security issues, the ongoing humanitarian crisis, hampered economic reform, strained bilateral relationships, and governance challenges that have hampered its progress as a nation. Are there opportunities for Myanmar going forward with the Biden A
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