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...Army colonel made a solemn speech to a hushed gathering that half filled the small, bare University of Hawaii's auditorium. His audience had gathered at the Army's request. Though most Hawaiian Japanese speak English, many of these did not. So they sat stiffly in straight-backed chairs, listening uncomprehendingly. Then up to the platform stepped Staff Sergeant Howard Hiroki, veteran of the South Pacific, to interpret the officer's words. Sixteen Japanese-Americans in the audience stood up. To each of them was given a Purple Heart, as wife, sweetheart or next...
...performer. As soon as it could get its classical recording library built up, the network obliged. But the most famous request to date came from Lieut. General Mark Clark, who phoned to ask what was playing. Told that it was Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, he asked for some Hawaiian music. "Who's this calling, bud?" asked the announcer. "General Clark." said the General. He quickly got Aloha...
Another front-line fighter from the Fifth who won: professional bantamweight Champion Marshall Higa, Hawaiian-born of Jap parents. (For news of another Hawaiian hero, see ,p. 16.) From General Sir Henry Maitland (";Jumbo") Wilson down, the brassiest hats of the North African Theater were among the 80,000 who saw and cheered the six-day finals. Up to officials in Washington is their proposal: that the eight amateur champions be sent to the U.S. to fight the best amateurs on the home front...
...handsomest Chinese fighter pilot in the European Theater of Operations" is what slight, Hawaiian-born Lieut. Kong calls himself (he is the only one; there are a few Chinese-American bombermen). He got into flying by way of the Corps of Engineers, for which he worked as a chem ist after he finished the University of Hawaii. Between missions he tries to teach other pilots Hawaiian without nota ble success. They cannot even learn to say "Hemakana Hewahewa Okalani Yim," which is his niece Shirley's Hawaiian name...
Lieut. Kong has his own troubles with all languages except Hawaiian American...