Medal of Honor recipient, a True American hero, not like some who are anointed by the media.
Senator Inouye was indeed an authentic American hero, he received a Distinguished Service Cross for acts of valor while serving in a famous Japanese-American Regiment (442d Infantry Regiment) in Europe in World War II. However, his receipt of the Medal of Honor was a political act enacted in recent years to honor him and many fellow vets of the 442d in atonenment of our treatment of Japanese American citizens during the war. He certainly deserved the DSC, the MoH, doubtful. One result of this political theater was that the 442d Infantry, by a stroke of the pen, laid claim to more Medals of Honor amongst its ranks than any other American Regiment in history.
Really? I didn't know that.Very impressive indeed.
Inouye was responsible for ousting the Communist Party infiltrators in Hawaiian Territorial politics in the late 1940’s, thus preventing them from taking over the Democratic Party.
Among those that Inouye ousted was Jack Hall, the CPUSA’s top man and political figure in Hawaii (ILWU, etc). He was billed as the next mayor of Honolulu, ie. the titular head of Hawaii.
Also, Inouye helped, indirectly to reduce the influence of Soviet agent of influence Frank Marshall Davis, Honolulu Record (CPUSA controlled paper). Davis had been sent down to Hawaii in the 1940’s at the request of two Soviet agents of influence, covert CPUSA Central Committee (1934) leader Harry Bridges (also CP of Australia), and Paul Robeson, a secret but also congressionally identified CPUSA workhorse.
Both Bridges and Robeson functioned as Soviet “operatives”. At that time they were probably under the control (direct or indirect) of the old NKVD/KGB or even the GRU. Until the KGB Archives are opened to the public, we won’t know positively or not. (Watch out for them flying pigs).
For a good look into the Hawaiian Communist Party operations, see the House Committee and Senate Internal Security Subcommittees on Communist Subversion in Hawaii, testimony of Jack Kawano, Jack Hall, etc.
Also, one woman CP lawyer representing Hawaiian reds was in the law firm that Hillary Clinton interned in. Surprise, surprise.
Inouye went further left as he got older (his other Hawaiian Senator, Akaka, was a hard core leftist), and Rep. Abercrombie, now Governor, has been an outright leftist since his friendship days with F.M. Davis and other Hawaiian reds.
That all said, I don’t think Inouye would ever do anything deliberately to hurt our country, but by being a Democrat, it comes with the job these days.
Dan, RIP.