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Obituary: Hawaii's former Democratic senator, Daniel Akaka, 93, has died after being hospitalized for several months. He served in Congress from 1977 to 2013.
A World War II veteran, Akaka sponsored legislation in 1996 that led to a re-evaluation of the service records of Asian -Americans who had fought in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the 100th Division during the war.
As a result, almost two-dozen Medals of Honor, the military’s highest award, were ultimately bestowed belatedly, some posthumously, on Asian American veterans, most of them of Japanese heritage. Only one had been awarded during the war itself.
After a White House awards -presentation ceremony led by President Bill Clinton in 2000, Akaka said the medals had dispelled apparent wartime discrimination against Asian American military personnel._____
Tweet of the Day:
Many have asked me. Pitch perfect answer: pic.twitter.com/ueRzVHGcIg— John Dean (@JohnWDean) April 7, 2018
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This is as good a reason as any why I don't do online "dating."
There are a lot of bad people out there. If I were in my twenties and thirties, I might take advantage of it, but the really bad people turn up a lot in the older age brackets.
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