Sheriff Mark Lamb

I'm a descendant of eight of the occupants of the Mayflower that came here.

And then the Lamb side came in 1630 on the Winthrop fleet.

No way.

Yeah.

Most of my ancestors on all sides of my family have been in America since probably the 1600s, 1700s.

And so when people ask me, where are you from?

I'm like, I'm American.

Like I've been hundreds of years in this country.

And so that's part of my love of this country is it's a deep connection.

I think generation after generation of being in this country, you start to develop a real deep appreciation and love for it.

But I was born and raised in Hawaii.

My dad was a businessman.

He was a graduate of Thunderbird Business College, which is a global business management school, probably one of the premier international schools in the country.

And so we were raised other places.

I grew up in Hilo, Hawaii, and didn't know anything different.

We were raised there.

I was just a little haole kid in Hawaii, which makes for a good upbringing because you learn to be tough real quick.

I'll bet.

I mean, Hawaii is a warrior culture anyway.

And then being a minority in a warrior culture, you're forced to be raised right there with those warriors.