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BY RAY SMITH - Every December 7, the American media reports on the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Thousands of remembrances. For Kauai residents, there is another significant day – April 1, 1942 – which was Easter Sunday. That was the day the first Regular U.S. Army units here to help defend our [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. Don Carlos Faith, Jr., the son of Brigadier General Don Carlos Faith, was born in Washington, Indiana on August 26, 1918. He was found to be medically unfit to attend West Point and graduated from Georgetown University. With America's entry into the Second World War approaching, Congress passed the Selective [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. The USS TICONDEROGA (CVA 14) was first in Vietnam waters in late 1944 when fighter planes from the TICONDEROGA and the USS HANCOCK flew strike missions against enemy vessels in Saigon Harbor. The TICONDEROGA, the fourteenth U.S. aircraft carrier to be built, was on station during the very early years [...]
Thousands of hula dancers, their families, their kumu hulas (teachers) and fans gathered this weekend for the 49th annual Merrie Monarch Hula Festival - a sort of Olympics of Hula - traditionally held the weekend after Easter in Hilo on the island of Hawaii. The three night competition begins with individual hula dancers competing for [...]
BY J. ARTHUR RATH III - Coconut Willee mused about his friend Dante Carpenter, head of Hawaii’s Democratic party, and the conundrum Ben Cayetano’s clear thinking is causing for those whose eyes and ears haven’t been seeing and listening clearly. Grinning, Willee said to me, in typical doggerel style: “When God gave out ‘brains’ They [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. Humbert Roque Versace has two connections to Hawaii: he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on July 2, 1937, and his name is engraved on one of the walls in the Courts of the Missing in the Honolulu Memorial at the National Memorial Cemetery Of The Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii. In [...]
Today, FOX television commentator Geraldo Rivera launched a new clothing line featuring non-threatening hoodies for Hispanic and Black customers. Following the unroar over his on air comments that minorities shouldn’t wear hoodies because they appear threatening to gun toting vigilantes, Geraldo felt compelled to do something positive. “I took a lot of flak over that [...]
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