The International Leadership Foundation Annual Awards Dinner was held at the Washington Hilton, D.C., on August 21. The Dinner theme is "A Salute to Asian American Veterans" with The Honorable Elaine C. Chao as a keynote speaker. Edward Chin was one of the veterans honored at the dinner. Mr. Chin, a U.S. Marine, draped an American flag over the face of a statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in a central Baghdad square before the Marines tied the statue to a tank recovery vehicle and pulled it down.