• Included in the Obituaries List.
• But I literally teared up when I read of the passing of a true gentleman, Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii.

Martin Winfree

December 18, 2012

Those of you who have been around me lately know that my emotions are closer to the surface than usual. But I literally teared up when I read of the passing of a true gentleman, Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii; he has been representing the state of Hawaii for as long as there has been a state of Hawaii (since 1959), with all but three of those years in the Senate. Besides being a true war hero and quietly breaking down racial barriers: He’s a Japanese-American – he was even among those that our country shamefully rounded up and put in camps in the wake of Pearl Harbor; he was in town for that very event in fact – he is a model Senator about whom I have never heard so much a whisper against from anyone over his entire career. Our country is poorer indeed with his unexpected death.