Hello, everyone in Kesennuma City and especially Oshima Island.
My name is Chief Warrant Officer Joshua Stone. I am the new director of the III Marine Expeditionary Force Band, located in Okinawa.
I recently had the pleasure to meet some of your fine citizens and children during their visit to Okinawa as part of the Oshima Youth Cultural Exchange Program. We are so proud to have this special relationship with your city, and continue to keep you in our prayers as the Tohoku region recovers from the devastation more than two years ago.
We were hoping to visit your city again to perform in the 62nd Kesennuma Port Festival as we did last year, but we are not able to make it this summer. I do hope to visit your city in the future, meet you all and perform for you in person.
In the meantime, I would like to have some of my band members play for you on this video message.