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panader0

(25,816 posts) Mon May 29, 2017, 05:06 PM May 2017

Daniel Inouye and "Sparky" Matsunaga. Great Nisei (Japanese American) soldiers.

Both were members of the 442 regiment of Japanese Americans soldiers in WWII.
Both became Democratic senators from Hawaii. Inouye lost his arm in the war.
I remember, as a kid, that Inouye had an ad that read Daniel In every way.
Great veterans and senators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Inouye
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark_Matsunaga

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Daniel Inouye and "Sparky" Matsunaga. Great Nisei (Japanese American) soldiers. (Original Post) panader0 May 2017 OP

In the middles 60s, I was billh58 May 2017 #1

billh58

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1. In the middles 60s, I was

Reply to panader0 (Original post)

Mon May 29, 2017, 06:47 PM

May 2017

sitting in Kay's Barbershop in Kahului Shopping Center (Maui) when Dan Inouye walked in asked for my (and everyone else's) vote. I voted for him then and in every election after that until his death.

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