Memorial Service for Veterans Mobilized to Vietnam and Iraq
WHO/WHAT: The Go For Broke Association will hold a Memorial Service in honor of the 50th anniversary of the 1968-1969 mobilization to Vietnam and the 15th anniversary of the 2004-2005 mobilization to Iraq.
WHEN/WHERE:...
Farewell to “A Very Special Soldier”
Dick Shigemi Hamada of Honolulu died May 27. He was 92 years old.
Hamada was born in Kukuihaele on Hawai‘i island and was a retired planner and estimator supervisor at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard...
Go For Broke – THE MAEHARA AND GIMA CONNECTION
Maui Families Reunited after 75 Years
Byrnes Yamashita
Commentary
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
On a recent afternoon in Honolulu, two families with roots on Maui came together to reminisce about their shared connection with a Nisei soldier...
Honoring Our Legacy – Leonard Oka
Creating the Maui Nisei Veterans Memorial Center Melvin Inamasu and Violet Harada Courtesy of the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i Persistence and grit are essential attributes of leadership. Leonard Oka possesses both in spades. It took Oka over three decades to realize his vision of a center on Maui to honor Nisei veterans. In the....
Nisei Veterans’ Legacy – How Will We Remember Our Nisei Veterans?
Editor’s note: Earlier this year, outgoing MIS Veterans Club of Hawaii president George Arine asked me to be the speaker at the club’s New Year’s gathering at the Natsunoya Tea House. With an issue to send to press every other week, my initial thought was to politely decline. But as the days went by, giving....
Cover Story – 80 YEARS OF 100TH
Gregg K. Kakesako
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
The 80th Anniversary Committee of the 100th Infantry Battalion Veterans organization compiled a list of known survivors here and on the mainland who served in the World War...
Fighting Two Wars – Gov. George Ariyoshi: Child’s Selflessness Forecast Japan’s Recovery
Gov. George R. Ariyoshi Governor of Hawai‘i, 1974 to 1986 Aloha everyone . . . Before I say very much, I want to express my appreciation to all of the veterans who served and made it possible for a younger person like me to be able to move after you, and I thank you very....
Retracing “Task Force Fukuda”
This past May, my wife Judy and I joined three other Hawai‘i couples — Ed and Jan Sakoda, Wayne and Carol Matsunaga, and Alvin and Ellie Shimogaki — on a journey to Italy to...
The Education Center — “To Inform and Transform”
Cornerstone. Crowning piece. Heart and soul.
For the better part of three decades, that is how many envisioned what is now the Education Center at the Nisei Veterans Memorial Center on Maui.
The Education Center opened...
Community Focus – MIS Veterans of Hawaii Installs its 2020 Officers
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