I’m sorry he won’t be around to enjoy the new health care plan.

Ronnie on December 17, 2012 at 7:05 PM

He never would have… as a MOH recipient, he would have been treated FOR FREE at a military hospital, hence his passing at Walter Reed Medical Center in DC…

Today, Hawaii is free of the dictatorship that has strangled the very breath of this state.

Governor Abercrombie, crying with the news, expressed Sen Dan’s last communication with him a few days ago in the form of a letter. He requested that Abercommie elect Colleen Hanabusa from the three candidates to replace him. His final order.

Malachi45 on December 18, 2012 at 1:59 AM
Deano1952 on December 17, 2012 at 10:37 PM
Scribbler on December 17, 2012 at 6:59 PM

Perhaps some of you chuckleheads would be happier if the MOH criteria came with a shelf life contingent on the individual’s politics.

Bradky on December 18, 2012 at 5:03 AM

Perhaps a chucklehead like yourself believes that the MOH absolves someone of a lifelong commitment to statism.

Malachi45 on December 18, 2012 at 1:59 AM
Deano1952 on December 17, 2012 at 10:37 PM
Scribbler on December 17, 2012 at 6:59 PM

Perhaps some of you chuckleheads would be happier if the MOH criteria came with a shelf life contingent on the individual’s politics.

Bradky on December 18, 2012 at 5:03 AM

Uhhhh —- they already DO….if not, EXPLAIN why Pat Leahy and Congress MADE SURE that there were virtually NO MOH RECIPIENTS under George W. Bush’s terms in Office, and Congress awarded a BUTTLOAD of them AFTER Obama had been elected!

Denying Good Soldiers Recognition for their Valor PALES in comparision to the Obsessive Need for Congress and The Media to BELLOW: “I HAAATE mmmBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!!”

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2012/06/army-medal-of-honor-selfless-actions-of-at-least-10-show-they-deserve-the-award-060112w/

FINALLY!!!

I was beginning to think this Leech using his Power to suck Money out of the American Taxpayers would NEVER go away!!

I hope he went peacefully – as opposed to how I felt about John Murtha, whom I hope spent the last hours of his life in the most indescribable agony possible after he thew the Marines at Haditha “under the bus” with NO substantiation or facts – Other Than Blind Loyalty to The Liberals Motto of “DESTROY BOOOOOOOOOOSH!!!”

Rest in Peace Sir

Not so good as politicians.

Malachi45 on December 18, 2012 at 1:59 AM
Deano1952 on December 17, 2012 at 10:37 PM
Scribbler on December 17, 2012 at 6:59 PM

Perhaps some of you chuckleheads would be happier if the MOH criteria came with a shelf life contingent on the individual’s politics.

I would settle for a basic IQ test, but it is despicably racist.

Archivarix on December 17, 2012 at 8:42 PM

No one could ever reasonably suspect YOU of racism now could they?

DarkCurrent on December 18, 2012 at 1:29 AM

Was anything he said untrue?

I would settle for a basic IQ test, but it is despicably racist.

Archivarix on December 17, 2012 at 8:42 PM

No one could ever reasonably suspect YOU of racism now could they?

That is absolutely ridiculous.

Hand salute.

I can’t say I agreed with all of his politics, but I remember what my mother told me about what a Japanese-American could expect before the war. She said that a college graduate could aspire to be a school teacher because the haole companies wouldn’t have him as a manager. I expect that experience would have helped shaped how Dan Inouye looked at the world. He could also see that the USA had unjustly imprisoned a large number of otherwise loyal people for reasons good or bad.

Since I recall that the Big Five were associated with the Republicans, I kind of doubt that he would choose to associate with them, even if the politics had changed over the decades he was in office. I also think a lot of his buddies were democrats too, so changing parties, if he ever contemplated that, would probably have seemed to him to be a betrayal of a war time bond. Honor and “Face” means a lot more to Japanese than maybe to caucasians.