Senior Day at the Colorado State Capitol

DENVER, CO - APRIL 01: Ruth Yoshiko Yamauchi, 99-years-old has a laugh with her granddaughter Carin Lawrence, a Colorado State Patrol trooper, in the old Supreme Court chambers at the Colorado State Capitol April 01, 2015. Yamauchi gave the Pledge of Allegiance to the Colorado Senior Lobby to start off Senior Day at the Capitol. Ruth and her husband Hiroshi were sent to a Japanese American internment camp in Utah shortly after Pearl Harbor, lived there until 1945 and eventually came here to Denver. Ruth worked at the camp hospital as a nurse, she's a mother of four, great-grandmother of five and has spent 30 years working with the developmentally disabled. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images)