Ed Perlmutter: “I feel very fortunate today to be able to celebrate both Mother's Day as well as the Asian Pacific American Heritage…”

“I feel very fortunate today to be able to celebrate both Mother's Day as well as the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. My mother-in-law was born on Molokai, has Filipino Hawaiian and Chinese ancestry and has 14 brothers and sisters spread from Hawaii to the Philippines. And she helped instill in my daughters the heritage and the values of family, hard work, and indomitable spirit. And I feel blessed to have those particular values from the Asian American community instilled in my children. This is a great country. To have that kind of heritage and that kind of ancestry in my family now is what makes this country so great. So I get to celebrate Mother's Day and I get to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.”