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(Courtesy of Senator Daniel Inouye)" width="445" height="640" data-sizes="(max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235240im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-011-inouye-DKIChild2.jpg 445w, /web/20200917235240im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-011-inouye-DKIChild2-264x380.jpg 264w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-011-inouye-DKIChild2.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-10500" class="wp-caption-text">Daniel Inouye, one-and-a-half years old in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1924. (Courtesy of Senator Daniel Inouye)</figcaption></figure> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Daniel Ken Inouye was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father’s parents, like many others, had come to Hawaii from Japan as laborers, to work on the sugar plantations. His mother, also a child of Japanese immigrants, was orphaned at an early age and later adopted by a Methodist bishop. Daniel Inouye was raised in the Methodist faith and named for his mother’s adoptive father. At the time, Hawaii was a territorial possession of the United States, but not yet a state. Political life on the islands was dominated by the white business community, particularly the sugar companies known as “the Big Five.” Although the Inouye family placed a strong emphasis on education as the route to success, that route led through a school system where opportunities for Asian American students were severely limited.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">After undergoing orthopedic surgery for a wrestling injury, young Daniel decided he wanted to become a surgeon himself, and planned to study medicine. In high school, he volunteered at the Red Cross Aid Station. He was 17 when Japan attacked the U.S. naval base at nearby Pearl Harbor, and as a medical aide, Inouye was among the first to treat the wounded. Even though Japanese Americans on the mainland were being interned by the U.S. government as potential security risks, Daniel Inouye and his peers were eager to serve their country. At first the War Department classified the Nisei (American-born children of Japanese immigrants) as “enemy aliens,” unfit for service. But after Inouye and others petitioned the White House, the Army accepted Japanese American men for service in segregated units. By this time, Inouye was enrolled in pre-medical studies at the University of Hawaii. As a pre-med student and an Aid Station worker, he was exempt from military service, but he quit his job and dropped out of school to join the all-Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team.</span></p> <figure id="attachment_10504" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10504" style="width: 371px" class="wp-caption alignright"><noscript><img class="wp-image-10504 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-015-inouye-DKIpreWWII.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-10504 size-full lazyload" alt="Although he was exempt for the draft, Daniel Inouye volunteered and joined the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the legendary "Go For Broke" unit of Japanese Americans. (Courtesy of Senator Daniel Inouye)" width="371" height="640" data-sizes="(max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235240im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-015-inouye-DKIpreWWII.jpg 371w, /web/20200917235240im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-015-inouye-DKIpreWWII-220x380.jpg 220w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-015-inouye-DKIpreWWII.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-10504" class="wp-caption-text">Although he was exempt from the draft, Daniel Inouye volunteered and joined the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the legendary “Go for Broke” unit of Japanese Americans. (Photo courtesy of Senator Daniel Inouye)</figcaption></figure> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Inouye distinguished himself in basic training, although he struggled to reconcile the violence of war with his Christian beliefs. Within his first year, he was promoted to sergeant, and became a platoon leader. His unit participated in the brutal Rome-Arno campaign of 1944 and Inouye was shocked to learn how quickly he became accustomed to killing enemy soldiers no older than himself. After D-Day, the 442nd moved to France. Inouye distinguished himself further in combat in France; shortly after he turned 20 he was promoted to lieutenant. He was awarded the Bronze Star for his service in France, which included the two-week mission to rescue the “Lost Battalion” of Texans trapped behind enemy lines. He narrowly missed death in France when a bullet struck him in the chest. His life was saved by a pair of silver dollars he carried in his shirt pocket. He continued to carry them as a good luck charm when his unit returned to Italy to clear the remaining strongholds of Axis resistance.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">On April 21, 1945, weeks before the fall of Berlin ended the war in Europe, Lt. Inouye realized his lucky silver dollars were missing. That day, Inouye led an assault on a heavily defended ridge known as Colle Musatello, near the town of Terenzo. Inouye’s unit was pinned down by fire from three machine gun placements. An enemy bullet tore straight through Lieutenant Inouye’s midsection, but he continued to lead his troops forward, hurling two hand grenades into the enemy position. Inouye had pulled the pin on a third when an enemy grenade launcher struck his right arm, severing it almost completely. Inouye’s own live grenade was still clutched in the right hand over which he no longer had any control. Warning his troops away, Inouye pried the grenade loose with his left hand and pitched it into the remaining machine gun nest. With his damaged arm spewing blood, he continued to lead his troops forward, firing his machine gun with his left hand until an enemy bullet struck his leg, and he lost consciousness.</span></p> <figure id="attachment_10503" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10503" style="width: 392px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><noscript><img class="wp-image-10503 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-014-inouye-DKIpostwar.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-10503 size-full lazyload" alt="Hyotaro Inouye welcomes his son Daniel home from the war in 1945. The young officer wears a metal hook in place of the arm he lost in combat. (Courtesy of Senator Daniel Inouye)" width="392" height="500" data-sizes="(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235240im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-014-inouye-DKIpostwar.jpg 392w, /web/20200917235240im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-014-inouye-DKIpostwar-298x380.jpg 298w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-014-inouye-DKIpostwar.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-10503" class="wp-caption-text">Hyotaro Inouye welcomes his son Daniel home from the war in 1945. The young officer wears a metal hook in place of the arm that he lost in World War II combat.</figcaption></figure> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">When he revived, he refused evacuation until he was sure his men had secured the captured ridge. Nine hours after he was wounded, when he reached a field hospital, the doctors quickly concluded Inouye had no chance of survival, but he insisted they operate. By then he had been given so much morphine, the doctors could not give him general anesthesia without further endangering his life, so he remained conscious through the operation that followed. The surgeons saved his life, but they could not save his arm. Inouye was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his heroism; he remained in the Army until 1947, when he was discharged with the rank of captain.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">At the time, it was clear that Inouye’s exploits, and those of other members of the 442nd, merited the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military decoration, but no Asian American received the award at war’s end. On his return to the States, Inouye and other minority veterans were subjected to much of the same discrimination they had met before the war. Inouye committed himself to the cause of equal rights for all Americans, and for all residents of Hawaii as fully enfranchised American citizens.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">The loss of his right arm had ended Inouye’s dream of being a surgeon, so when he returned to the University of Hawaii he pursued studies in government and economics. He married Margaret Shinobu Awamura in 1949, while attending the university on the G.I. Bill. After graduating in 1950, he entered George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., receiving his law degree in 1952.</span></p> <figure id="attachment_10501" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10501" style="width: 500px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-10501 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-012-inouye-DKIFamily.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-10501 size-full lazyload" alt="After returning from World War II, Daniel Inouye earned a law degree and embarked on a political career, with the support of his proud family. From L to R: his father Hyotaro, his mother Kame, and his wife Maggie. " width="500" height="330" data-sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235240im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-012-inouye-DKIFamily.jpg 500w, /web/20200917235240im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-012-inouye-DKIFamily-380x251.jpg 380w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-012-inouye-DKIFamily.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-10501" class="wp-caption-text">1954: After returning from World War II, Daniel Inouye earned a law degree and embarked on a political career, with the support of his proud family. From left to right: his father, Hyotaro; his mother, Kame; and his wife, Maggie.</figcaption></figure> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Returning to Hawaii, he took up the practice of law and then served as Deputy Public Prosecutor for the City of Honolulu. Inouye was already active in the Democratic Party and the movement to end the domination of state politics by the “Big Five” sugar companies. In 1954, Inouye was elected to the territorial legislature, where he served as leader of a new Democratic majority. In 1958 he was elected to the territory’s Senate.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Despite fierce resistance from members of Congress who feared Hawaii’s non-white majority and newly empowered unions, Hawaii was finally approved for admission to the union as the 50th state. With statehood imminent, Inouye was elected to serve as Hawaii’s first U.S. Representative; he took his seat in Congress on August 21, 1959, the day Hawaii became a state. He was re-elected to a full term in the House the following year.</span></p> <figure id="attachment_10491" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10491" style="width: 1347px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-10491 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-002-inouye-CORBIS-U1325779-4.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-10491 size-full lazyload" alt="President John F. Kennedy welcomes a fellow veteran, Representative Daniel Inouye, to the White House in April 1962. (© Bettmann/CORBIS )" width="1347" height="1341" data-sizes="(max-width: 1347px) 100vw, 1347px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235240im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-002-inouye-CORBIS-U1325779-4.jpg 1347w, /web/20200917235240im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-002-inouye-CORBIS-U1325779-4-190x190.jpg 190w, /web/20200917235240im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-002-inouye-CORBIS-U1325779-4-380x378.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235240im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-002-inouye-CORBIS-U1325779-4-760x757.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-002-inouye-CORBIS-U1325779-4.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-10491" class="wp-caption-text">1962: President John F. Kennedy welcomes a fellow veteran, Representative Daniel Inouye, to the White House.</figcaption></figure> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">In 1962, Daniel Inouye was elected to a vacant seat in the U.S. Senate, where he was soon appointed to the Senate Armed Services Committee. In the years that followed, as a member of the Appropriations Committee and the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, he won a reputation as a tireless advocate for the development of his native state. Outside of Hawaii, many Americans saw Daniel Inouye for the first time as the keynote speaker of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He achieved even greater visibility as a member of the Senate Select Committee investigating charges arising out of the Watergate affair, proceedings which led directly to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974. The daily hearings were nationally televised, and viewers across the country were impressed with Inouye’s tough but fair questioning of the committee’s witnesses.</span></p> <figure id="attachment_10492" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10492" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-10492 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-003-inouye-CORBIS-U1363201.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-10492 lazyload" alt="Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield gives freshman Democratic Senators a tour of the Capitol at the opening of the 88th Congress in 1963. L to R: Thomas J. McIntyre of New Hampshire; George S. McGovern of South Dakota; Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts; Mike Mansfield of Montana; Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii; and Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)" width="2280" height="2362" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235240im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-003-inouye-CORBIS-U1363201.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235240im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-003-inouye-CORBIS-U1363201-367x380.jpg 367w, /web/20200917235240im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-003-inouye-CORBIS-U1363201-734x760.jpg 734w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-003-inouye-CORBIS-U1363201.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-10492" class="wp-caption-text">1963: Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield gives freshman Democratic Senators a tour of the Capitol at the opening of Congress: Thomas McIntyre of New Hampshire; George McGovern of South Dakota; Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts; Mike Mansfield of Montana; Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii; and Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut. (AP)</figcaption></figure> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">The Watergate hearings and subsequent investigations had revealed serious abuses in the nation’s intelligence agencies, and in 1975 Senator Inouye was selected to serve as Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Again, Inouye won praise for evenhandedness, as he sought to improve legislative oversight for the agencies without impairing the intelligence-gathering necessary for national security.</span></p> <figure id="attachment_10494" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10494" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-10494 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-005-inouye-CORBIS-YM008885.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-10494 size-full lazyload" alt="Perennially popular in his native state, Daniel Inouye prepares to address a public meeting in Hawaii in 1983. (© Michael S. Yamashita/CORBIS)" width="2280" height="1517" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235240im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-005-inouye-CORBIS-YM008885.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235240im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-005-inouye-CORBIS-YM008885-380x253.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235240im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-005-inouye-CORBIS-YM008885-760x506.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-005-inouye-CORBIS-YM008885.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-10494" class="wp-caption-text">1983: Perennially popular in his native state, Daniel K. Inouye prepares to address a public meeting in Hawaii.</figcaption></figure> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">In 1984, Senator Inouye served as senior counsel to the Kissinger Commission, a bi-partisan panel reviewing U.S. policy in Central America. The controversies surrounding this issue soon brought Inouye into the national spotlight once again. In 1987, he was called on to chair a special Senate committee investigating the Iran-Contra affair. The administration of President Ronald Reagan had sold arms to Iran, an ostensibly hostile government, with the apparent goal of obtaining Iranian influence to free Americans held hostage by the radical group Hezbollah in Lebanon. Funds from the sales were apparently used to arm the Contra rebels in Nicaragua, violating an explicit congressional ban on intervention in the Nicaraguan conflict. Inouye’s findings were severe, and he accused the administration of creating a secret military establishment answerable only to itself.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">In the same year as the Iran-Contra hearings, Inouye assumed the chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, seeking justice for the descendants of America’s first inhabitants. Inouye was also instrumental in securing full benefits for Filipino veterans who had served in the U.S. Army in World War II, but who had long been denied the pensions and medical benefits to which they were justly entitled.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">An injustice of another kind was addressed by President Bill Clinton in 2000. Although the actions of the Nisei soldiers of the 442nd Battalion were widely regarded as some of the most courageous of the war, none had been recognized with the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military decoration. After extensive review, the Distinguished Service Crosses awarded to Senator Inouye and 21 other Asian-American heroes of World War II were upgraded to full Medal of Honor status. For some, the honor came too late. Fifteen medals were awarded posthumously, but Senator Inouye and the other survivors were on hand to receive their Medals of Honor from President Clinton at the White House.</span></p> <figure id="attachment_10502" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10502" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-10502 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-013-inouye-DKIMOH.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-10502 size-full lazyload" alt="June 21, 2000: President Bill Clinton presents Daniel Inouye with the Medal of Honor at a ceremony in the White House. (Courtesy of Senator Daniel Inouye)" width="640" height="509" data-sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235240im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-013-inouye-DKIMOH.jpg 640w, /web/20200917235240im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-013-inouye-DKIMOH-380x302.jpg 380w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-013-inouye-DKIMOH.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-10502" class="wp-caption-text">2000: President Bill Clinton presents Daniel Inouye with the Medal of Honor at a ceremony in the White House.</figcaption></figure> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Senator Inouye affirmed his longstanding commitment to bipartisanship in 2005 when he joined a group of senators from both parties in a mutual agreement to limit debate over judicial appointments. Inouye and his Democratic colleagues in the so-called Gang of 14 allowed long-stalled judicial appointments of President George W. Bush to come to a vote, while both sides forswore the use of the filibuster over judgeships except in extraordinary circumstances.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Maggie Inouye, the Senator’s wife of 57 years, died in 2006. The couple had one son, musician Kenny Inouye. In 2008, Senator Inouye, age 84, married Irene Hirano, the CEO of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. An accomplished administrator, she now serves as President of the U.S.-Japan Council, and chairs the Board of Trustees of the Ford Foundation.</span></p> <figure id="attachment_10506" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10506" style="width: 1500px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-10506 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-017-inouye-Daniel-Inouye2-official_photo-PUBLIC-DOMAIN.jpeg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-10506 size-full lazyload" alt="Senator Daniel K. Inouye, official United States Senate photo portrait, 2008." width="1500" height="1331" data-sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235240im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-017-inouye-Daniel-Inouye2-official_photo-PUBLIC-DOMAIN.jpeg 1500w, /web/20200917235240im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-017-inouye-Daniel-Inouye2-official_photo-PUBLIC-DOMAIN-380x337.jpeg 380w, /web/20200917235240im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-017-inouye-Daniel-Inouye2-official_photo-PUBLIC-DOMAIN-760x674.jpeg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-017-inouye-Daniel-Inouye2-official_photo-PUBLIC-DOMAIN.jpeg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-10506" class="wp-caption-text">2008: Daniel K. Inouye was a United States Senator from Hawaii from 1963-2012 and was President pro tempore of the United States from 2010 until his death in 2012, making him the highest-ranking Asian-American politician in United States history. Sen. Inouye served as Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations. After his death, he was a posthumous recipient of the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.</figcaption></figure> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">In 2009, Senator Inouye was appointed to chair the Senate Committee on Appropriations, widely considered the most powerful of Senate committee assignments. The following year, he was elected to his ninth term in the United States Senate. After Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, he was the second-longest serving senator in the history of the body. With the death of Senator Byrd in 2010, Inouye became the Senate’s senior member, and in keeping with Senate tradition was named President pro tempore of the Senate. This placed Senator Inouye third in line of succession to the presidency, following the Vice President and the Speaker of the House. The grandson of immigrant plantation workers, the young man who had been barred from service as an “enemy alien,” had won his nation’s highest honors and risen to the heights of political power.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">At age 88, the Senator was admitted to Walter Reed Army Medical Center for treatment of respiratory complications. His wife and son were by his side at the moment of his death. His office reported that his last word was “Aloha.” After his death, Daniel Inouye, who had already received the nation’s premier military decoration, was awarded its highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.</span></p> </body></html> <div class="clearfix"> </div> </article> </div> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane" id="profile" role="tabpanel"> <section class="clearfix"> <header class="editorial-article__header"> <figure class="text-xs-center"> <img class="inductee-badge" src="/web/20200917235240im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/themes/aoa/assets/images/inducted-badge@2x.png" alt="Inducted Badge" width="120" height="120"/> <figcaption class="serif-3 text-brand-primary"> Inducted in 1968 </figcaption> </figure> </header> <div class="row"> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar"> <dl class="clearfix m-b-0"> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Career</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> <div><a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/#filter=.military-soldier">Military/Soldier</a></div> </dd> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Date of Birth</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> September 7, 1924 </dd> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Date of Death</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> December 17, 2012 </dd> </div> </dl> </aside> <article class="col-md-8 editorial-article clearfix"> <p class="inputTextFirst">Daniel Inouye was a 17-year-old high school student in Honolulu when his country, the United States, was attacked by Japan, the country of his ancestors. Initially denied the right to serve, as a so-called “enemy alien,” he fought successfully for the right to wear his country’s uniform and distinguished himself as an infantry officer in France and Italy. In the last days of the war in Europe, he lost his right arm in combat.</p> <p class="inputText">After the war, Daniel Inouye became a leader in the movement for Hawaiian statehood, and was chosen to serve as his state’s first member of the U.S. House of Representatives. For nearly 50 years, he served in the United States Senate, an outspoken champion of equal rights for all Americans. Forty-five years after the end of World War II, he was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism on the field of battle.</p> <p class="inputText">Daniel Inouye was the second longest serving senator in U.S. History. As President Pro Tempore of the Senate from 2010 until his death, he was third in line of succession to the presidency, the highest position in government ever attained by an Asian American.</p> </article> </div> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane" id="interview" role="tabpanel"> <section class="clearfix"> <div class="col-md-12 interview-feature-video"> <figure> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/hqPzMRKyCrM?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&start=0&end=3129&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Inouye-Daniel-2010-HDCAM-1of2-Orig.00_05_09_02.Still001-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Inouye-Daniel-2010-HDCAM-1of2-Orig.00_05_09_02.Still001-760x428.jpg"></div> <div class="video-tag sans-4"> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> <div class="video-tag__text">Watch full interview</div> </div> </div> </figure> </div> <header class="col-md-12 text-xs-center m-b-2"> <i class="icon-icon_bio text-brand-primary"></i> </header> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar"> <h2 class="serif-3 achiever--biography-subtitle">Medal of Honor</h2> <div class="sans-2">Washington, D.C.</div> <div class="sans-2">September 27, 2010</div> </aside> <article class="editorial-article col-md-8">   <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>Thank you, Senator, for sitting down with the Academy today. We’d like to discuss your experiences in the war. There is a story about a face-to-face encounter you had with an enemy soldier that had a big impact on you. Could you tell us about that?</b></span></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/0jxePWYkVlo?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&start=0&end=125&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Inouye-Daniel-2010-HDCAM-1of2-Orig.00_23_03_26.Still007-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Inouye-Daniel-2010-HDCAM-1of2-Orig.00_23_03_26.Still007-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="p1">Daniel Inouye: Well up until then I’d killed many Germans, I won’t tell you. This is one secret, because you must keep in mind that if you run across a dog driving, would you ever forget that? You could never forget that, that bump. It’ll haunt you for the rest of your life. Imagine if you killed a human being. You’re not going to forget that. Well I killed many, but this was at a time when I was still a sergeant, not an officer yet. And the machine gun on the second floor had been firing at us and killed one of the men and I was angry. We charged up there, there were three Germans, two were dead and one was alive, but he was sitting on the floor, back against the wall, his legs were wounded. His hands were up, “<em>Kamerad! Kamerad!</em>” And I didn’t speak German worth anything, so I proceeded towards him. Then suddenly he stuck his hand in his jacket, like this. My initial and natural reaction was, this fool is going for his gun. So I swung my rifle up, hit his face on the butt, and he was dead. His hand flew out and up came a packet of photographs of his wife and kids. That’s what he wanted to show me, that he was a father, he was married, he’s got children, so be good to me. I killed him. You don’t forget that.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>That’s a situation that a lot of people probably can’t understand.</b></span></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/C1K1mhoyOq4?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&start=0&end=148&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Inouye-Daniel-2010-HDCAM-1of2-Orig.00_30_06_22.Still009-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Inouye-Daniel-2010-HDCAM-1of2-Orig.00_30_06_22.Still009-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="p1">Daniel Inouye: I told the chaplain, I said, “I don’t think I can continue doing this.” He says, “Well the war is still on, and if we don’t put them away, they’re going to put us away.” So reluctantly, I went along. I didn’t enjoy my work. Up until then I must admit I enjoyed it, and men who have served, some of them have experienced this. To this day I cannot fathom this, but I was a young corporal — a sergeant — leading a contact patrol from my battalion to the next battalion. We were walking along the trail and all of a sudden I looked up on a hill, not too far away, and here’s this German. He’s crouched, he’s defecating. Nothing glamorous about it. And I told them, “That’s mine. Get down.” I set my sights carefully, pshh, boom. And the men all came up to me, “Terrific Dan, terrific!” Killed a human being, terrific, and I felt good. You know? I’m a Sunday school teacher and I felt good. When I think about it, that’s one of the horrors of war, that you can change a person, train them to hate, train them to kill. It’s a terrible thought. You would think that no one can change you, your soul, your heart, your compassion. But here I was, I shot this German and I was proud, and the men around me came around, “Terrific, Dan!” How can you forget that? That was number one.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>I had heard a story, Senator, about two coins in your pocket?</b></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Daniel Inouye: Oh, that was my good luck coin.</span></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/iIvr_impLyQ?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&start=0&end=102&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Inouye-Daniel-2010-HDCAM-1of2-Orig.00_43_39_03.Still011-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Inouye-Daniel-2010-HDCAM-1of2-Orig.00_43_39_03.Still011-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="p1">This is a secret I don’t know if I should share with you, but in my younger days, when I was a sergeant, I ran the biggest crap game in the regiment. That’s achievement! But not to make money. I gave them away because I didn’t want to write home and tell my mother I’m a gambler, because you know she would die. So I didn’t save anything. I gave it all away, so my game was very popular. The losers got their money back, and I saved two silver dollars, and I carried them with me in a bag, a little packet, as a good luck charm, because those two dollars had saved my life. Because a bullet struck the coin, went off, instead of entering my body. So I kept them. The day I got my final injury, I looked for my coins, they were gone. It must have slipped out, so I knew something was going to happen. In fact, I told the platoon leader of the next platoon. I said, “Today I get it.” He said, “You’re crazy.” I said, “No. I know I get it. I hope it’s not too bad.”</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><b>Could you tell us about the day you were wounded. When was it? How old were you?</b></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: April 21st was the last time. I was 20 then.</p> <p><b>And you were in Italy. Can you tell us how that day started out?</b></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/sLG4c-YHlGo?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&start=0&end=0&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Inouye-Daniel-2010-MasterEdit.00_03_44_01.Still013-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Inouye-Daniel-2010-MasterEdit.00_03_44_01.Still013-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/keys-to-success/perseverance/">Perseverance</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="p1">Daniel Inouye: I was an officer then, first lieutenant, and about a week before this attack, we had an officers’ meeting and the captain says, “I want you to pledge silence. You’re not going to tell anyone what transpires in this room.” Okay. His words were very simple: “The war is over.” I looked at him. “What do you mean, the war is over? They’re still shooting!” “They’re now negotiating. So be careful, keep up the pressure, because you don’t want to prolong the war. You want to end it fast, so put the pressure on, but be careful.” Well, at that point, you don’t want your men to be wounded, so keeping that in mind, moving up. On that day I was wounded a couple of times. The first one I thought somebody punched me in the stomach, but no one was around. A bullet had gone through my abdomen. Believe it or not, it just felt like a punch, but there’s no pain nerves inside. The pain nerve’s on your surface. It is much more painful if somebody stepped on your toe. So I kept on going. The bleeding was very minor. It wasn’t fatal at that point. Then we were confronted by three machine gun nests.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><b>So you were leading your men forward when you came under machine gun fire from three different locations. How many of you were there?</b></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: I think about 15, and I was leading them, so I say, “Stay down!”</p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/82osxAzt9As?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&start=0&end=49&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Inouye-Daniel-2010-HDCAM-1of2-Orig.00_21_02_00.Still005-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Inouye-Daniel-2010-HDCAM-1of2-Orig.00_21_02_00.Still005-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/keys-to-success/courage/">Courage</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="p1">To show you how lucky I am — but I knew this was the day — the first one… Boom! The second one… Boom! Until a grenade launcher came directly at me. Instead of hitting me here, it hit my arm. Now that’s luck. Don’t you think so? I lost my arm but I was still alive, until I got hit in the leg and then I couldn’t walk. I must have looked terrible, because with blood gushing out, I’ve got this submachine gun, brrr, like the movies!</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>You were grievously wounded but you weren’t carried out right away. Is that right? Why did you stay?</b></span></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/WF_FnRal0nY?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&start=0&end=175&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Inouye-Daniel-2010-MasterEdit.00_01_18_13.Still014-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Inouye-Daniel-2010-MasterEdit.00_01_18_13.Still014-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/keys-to-success/courage/">Courage</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="p1">Daniel Inouye: You have certain responsibilities as a platoon leader. I wanted to make certain before I left that the men were deployed in positions of defense, because you can always count on the enemy counterattacking. Once you’ve pushed them out, they try to get back. We were now at the high point, and I might as well tell you now, but most people think I got hit by Germans, right? No. In the early stages of World War II, the Italian army, navy, air force surrendered. If you think back to the African war, they surrendered. They sunk the navy, the aircraft were all burnt. One division refused to surrender, the Bersaglieri. They were the — I would say the successors to the Praetorian Guards. In the old days the Praetorian Guards protected Caesar, the dictator. These were Bersaglieri troops, crack troops, protected the king. And their attitude was, “We will put down our arms if the king tells us to do so.” Well the king was nowhere around, it was run by Mussolini. So they fought until the end of the war, and these brave fellows, when the war came to an end I think there were less then 500 out of the whole division. And so if you go to my office you’ll see the hat and the plaque. I’m a member of the Bersaglieri, because years later — I’m a senator now, chairman of the defense committee — I was in Rome as part of the negotiating team for the use of Aviano, the airport. And after the negotiations were finished, I looked at the prime minister and I said, “I’m looking for someone who fought with the Bersaglieri.” He says, “Why?” and I told him. “These were brave men. None of them ever surrendered. They fought until they were killed or wounded, and I just want to shake their hands to say that it was an honor fighting them.” He says, “This general is in charge.” A battalion of Bersaglieri was run by a four-star general, that’s how important they were.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><b>You said you were lucky. How big a factor do you think luck is in life?</b></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: I was hoping you wouldn’t ask me this.</p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/L2BqBK8TSX4?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&start=0&end=91&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Inouye-Daniel-2010-HDCAM-1of2-Orig.00_22_54_21.Still006-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Inouye-Daniel-2010-HDCAM-1of2-Orig.00_22_54_21.Still006-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/keys-to-success/integrity/">Integrity</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="p1">I’m supposed to be a normal, sane type person, but after you go through war and such, you become superstitious. I am convinced that somebody is looking after me. Now for example, when I was wounded the last time — I was wounded four times, that’s how lucky I am — none of them killed me. The last one was a terrible one. The arm flew off and everything else. It took nine hours to evacuate me. I was wounded just about noontime, but I stuck around until three, when I felt that the platoon was in shape, then I said, “I’m ready to go.” From three to midnight, because everything was on a stretcher. Today, if I had been wounded under the same circumstances, I would have been evacuated by helicopter and I’d be in a hospital within 30 minutes. As a result, in my regiment — the regiment I served in — no double amputee survived, because they bled to death. No brain injury survived, and that’s what the nature of war was like.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235240if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/TbXZTbaYc80?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&start=0&end=144&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-014-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-014-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/keys-to-success/courage/">Courage</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="p1">So here I am, I get to the hospital at midnight. I’m in a room about — oh, five times this size — it was a tent. And you can see hundreds of stretchers lined up, and some of the men are dead, some are severely wounded. And there were about three or four teams of doctors and nurses going up and down the line and they’re mumbling.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But after awhile I’m watching them, and it became very clear that they were deciding. This one? “Immediately in the surgical room, because he needs treatment.” Next one? “You can wait. Not that serious.” The third category? “God bless you.” Well when the doctors came by, and the nurses, they looked me over and they put me in that category. Category three, that they say good-bye. Because the hospital had so much in resources and so many nurses, and so many doctors, and so many beds. They couldn’t accommodate all. And some of them were already dead or unconscious. So when the chaplain came by, and he’s following the doctors, he came by and he looked at me. “Son, God loves you.” I said, “Oh yes, I know God loves me. I love God too, but I’m not ready to see him.” He looked at me, he said, “You’re serious, aren’t you?” I said, “Absolutely. I’m not ready to go yet.” He ran up to the doctors, and I don’t know what he said, he was mumbling away. Doctors came by, looked me over, shipped me out right away to the operating room. I had to do my first surgical procedure without anesthesia because they were afraid that I might not wake up. See how lucky I am?</p> </div> </div>     <aside class="collapse" id="full-interview">    <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>We’d like you to retrace your steps to your life before the war. Could you tell us about where you were born?</strong></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: I was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. In fact, I can just about picture it for you. Across from the Pacific Club. Ironically, the Pacific Club was a club for the titans of industry. The Big Boys. But I think it might be a bit more interesting if I told you a few years before then…</p> <p>My grandparents, from the southern island of Japan, Kyushu, walked all the way from Kyushu to Tokyo, Yokohama, to get on a ship — and this was the first of July, I believe, or fourth of July — on the Shanghai Maru. It took about 30 days, arrived in Honolulu about the 25th of July, 1899. To work in a plantation. They were given about three days of health examinations and such, and on the 28th they were shipped off to the island of Kauai. And there they worked in the plantations for over 20 years. They had a goal to make $300, because the family had a debt that had to be paid, which was a matter of honor for them. My father had had gone over as a child of two. About that time a law was passed by the United States making it impossible for any one of these immigrants to become naturalized, no matter how good they were. But that was the beginning.</p> <p>My father was, I would say, a Buddhist. My grandparents are Buddhist. My mother, on the other hand, was a child of immigrant parents also, from Hiroshima, on the island of Maui, but at the time of her birth her mother died. And then her father died four years later, so here she was literally on the street. Because her father was a plantation worker, and no longer in existence, so that house went to the next worker. But fortunately, about a month after his passing, a young Hawaiian couple came by, took her by the hand, and took her home, and in the Hawaiian fashion adopted her: <em>hanai</em>. She was also brought up as a Buddhist as a child. But about a year after the Hawaiian family had discovered her, she was also discovered by the Methodist pastor in Lahaina. And he took the attitude “Orphans belong in orphanages,” and so shipped her off to Honolulu as a young child. But here everything changes. She went to the orphanage, and on the first Sunday afternoon all the young girls of Asian extraction were lined up, and the bishop of the church came by and they went through the ritual: “What is your name? What would you like?” And the answer was always, “A piece of candy.” My mother had no idea what it was. So she said, “I want a home.” And the bishop took her home, believe it or not, and she was adopted by the bishop. So until she passed away, her two sisters were blonde and blue-eyed, her brother blond and blue-eyed, and her father’s name was Daniel Kleinfelter. Dr. Bishop Daniel Kleinfelter. I’m named after him. So that’s my beginning.</p> <p><strong>How about school? Do you have an early memory of school in Hawaii?</strong></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: Yes, they were all public schools. I went to kindergarten, and I had a lovely time there. It was an Episcopal kindergarten. My mother and my father were Methodist, but I became, very proudly, a Holder of the Cross. And it became a big time for me, at the age of four, walking down the aisle. So that was my first big achievement. And on Christmas Eve I was the first King in the Three Kings of Orient. So that was another great achievement. I’ll never forget those days. They were good days.</p> <p><strong>Were you a good student? Did you like school?</strong></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: I was the eldest son. And from as early as I can recall it was pounded into me that you are the eldest son, you are to make certain sacrifices. And the word “honor.” Can you imagine a three-year-old kid, being lectured about honor? But that became a key word. For example, when I left Hawaii to put on the uniform I was 18 years old. My father and I were on the streetcar, going towards the departure point, and the only thing he said was, “Whatever you do, do not dishonor the family. Do not dishonor the country. And if you must die, die with honor.” I’m an 18-year-old kid and he’s telling me that! And I understood exactly what he meant. While I was the eldest, I had a sister, right below me, and two brothers.</p> <p><strong>How about books that you read when you were a child? Was there any particular book that you enjoyed?</strong></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: The first book that I recall reading was <em>The Three Bears</em>. Mama, Papa, Baby Bear. And that was my mother reading it to me. I must have been about two years old, but I’ve loved bears ever since!</p> <p><strong>How about when you were a little bit older? Was there a teacher or mentor or another adult that inspired or challenged or motivated you?</strong></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: The first motivating teacher came in about my first year in high school. Now if you can picture me at that time, we hardly wore shoes. As I told a committee once, a committee that questioned my application for the Honor Society. “Why don’t you wear shoes?” And I told them very clearly, “Shoes are for funerals, church services, weddings and extraordinary days. Otherwise, I am barefooted.” And that’s the way most of my colleagues were, young kids.</p> <p><strong>Do you have any early memories of discrimination?</strong></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: I was too young. We all lived in enclaves — the Japanese area, Filipino area, Chinese, Hawaiian — but in school we were all together. Most of the teachers were white, but most of the students were either Asian or Polynesian, and a few white. And in Hawaii — this may sound strange — at that time, those of Portuguese ancestry didn’t consider themselves white. “We are Portuguese.” They were very proud of it. Very insular people, hard working, but they always differentiated themselves. So when we said “white” in Hawaii, in my generation, it did not include the Portuguese. So in elementary school I’d say it was one percent White and the rest were “Us.” It was the same thing in intermediate school and high school. In high school I think the largest group were of Japanese ancestry.</p> <p><strong>Did you find that different groups were discriminated against?</strong></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: We had a segregated school system. Most people don’t remember that, because that’s a long, long time ago. It was called English Standard Schools. You had to pass certain examinations. Not just written, but the spoken language. And usually, those of us who came from these enclaves would not make the test. Because, for example, I took the test just for the hell of it and I got a perfect paper. But when I faced a teacher, she immediately knew I spoke pidgin, and I flunked! But that’s the way it was. English Standard Schools, it was a public school. About ten percent were non-white, 90 percent were White. This went on until about 1956, and it was completely wiped out then.</p> <p><strong>Did something happen around this time that motivated you to study medicine?</strong></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: When I was in the seventh grade, during one of the sporting events, wrestling, I fell the wrong way and I fractured my elbow. Compound fracture. It was rather bad. The bone protruded. But somehow, my parents couldn’t afford a first class orthopedic surgeon, so believe it or not we got one of these judo specialists, like a sports physician. And naturally he didn’t do a good job, because this was a compound fracture. To make a long story short, my mother finally took me to Shriners (Hospital), and got hold of Dr. Craig, a very important person. He was the head orthopedic surgeon. He looked me over, and he says, “Okay.” We had surgery, turned out well, good enough to be admitted into the service. I never forgot him, because about a week after my surgery, my mother and I went to his office, and there my mother said, “It may take us a lifetime, but I’ll pay you.” He said, “Did I ever mention a fee?” He said, “All you do is pay for the operating room, which is $25. And my services? Your payment will be you’ll be a good student.” And here I was. And right then, I said, “I’m going to be an orthopedic surgeon.”</p> <p><strong>At what point did you join the Red Cross as a medical aide?</strong></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: I was about 16 then, in my first year of high school. A lot of the kids took part, and I wanted to know something about first aid. Not because I wanted to be a doctor, but I thought first aid was fine. By 1941 I was a rather senior fellow. Even at the age of 17 I was in charge of all the medical aid men. We had this Aid Station. This is in 1941, just before the attack. So when the attack came, our Aid Stations were already set. Now these Aid Stations were for local problems. We had an ambulance and it worked out well. So I worked in the Aid Station on the night shift and went to school during the day. And on December the 7th, I don’t know whether you’d call it an honor, but people tell me that I picked up the first civilian dead, and somehow I did not faint or throw up. I did my job.</p> <p><strong>Tell us about the attack on Pearl Harbor. Can you tell us how that day started out for you?</strong></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: I was, like the rest of the family, getting ready for church. It was Sunday, December 7, 1941. And as every Sunday, I had the little radio on, listening to music, and the disc jockey was saying, “The next song is this and this and this…”. And he’d be playing, and I was putting on my necktie, and all of a sudden he started screaming, “The Japs are bombing us! This is no exercise!” And I said, “Well, this is crazy. It must be part of the show.” You know? Because Orson Welles had done something like that just about that time. So I didn’t take it seriously. But then he kept on it. Screaming and yelling. No music. So I decided to go out, and I looked out towards Pearl Harbor, and my God! There were puffs, anti-aircraft, and aircraft flying, and all of a sudden three of them, flew above us, above me. It was grey with red dots on the wing. I knew they were Japanese. I used some profanity then, but I figured the world had come to an end there. So I called my father and said, “You’d better come out and take a look,” and I immediately knew what I have to do. I took off my Sunday clothes, put on my work clothes, went to the Aid Station, and I was away for about a week.</p> <p><strong>So you saw the first casualties come in that day?</strong></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: On the first day I was in charge of that team, stretcher team. First was a woman, I’ll never forget, part of her head was sliced off. Shrapnel. But ironically, it happened that these shells were our shells. In the excitement, the crew in charge of the anti-aircraft battery had forgotten to put the timer on. See, the shells have to have a timer, so that when it gets up to a certain height it explodes. Sometimes you want it lower, sometimes you want it higher. But this time they forgot to do it, so it just went up and down. It hit the ground and exploded. And so it just happened that it hit right in our neighborhood. The first one was this old lady having breakfast. The second one was about six people, the shops had just opened. And the worst one was a mother holding her child. Her head was sliced off, her legs were sliced off. And the baby’s head — clop! —in the bottom. There’s a little story to this, because that afternoon the husband, who happened to be away on the other side of the island doing some work, came by for them when the war started, and looked for his family, came to the Aid Station. “Is my wife wounded?” I said, “Yes.” “I’d like to see her.” I said, “No.” And he insisted, and the doctor said, “Show her to him.” I said, “Doc, if you show that remains to him, he’s going to go nuts.” Sure enough, he ended up in the insane asylum. That’s how it happens. So I was ready for the war.</p> <p><strong>You were ready to sign up. Is it true they wouldn’t take you at first?</strong></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: I had gone to the Draft Board to say, “I want to sign up,” and they said, “No, you are 4-C.” I had no idea what 4-C was, though. So I had to inquire, “What is a 4-C?” “You’re enemy.” Ho! To be told by a fellow American that you’re an enemy, that’s stunning. I could never forget that. I was just 18 at that time. And like most young men I wanted to serve my country. Put on a uniform and do our business. Well, about three weeks after the bombing we got word that we of Japanese ancestry, were declared to be 4-C. 1-A is physically fit and mentally alert. 4-F is, something’s wrong with you physically or mentally. 4-C is the designation for “enemy alien.” I was made an enemy, and as a result, I was not qualified to put on the uniform. So I couldn’t be drafted, I couldn’t volunteer. So we got together, Japanese Americans, and began petitioning the President to say, “Look, give us an opportunity to show our stuff.” And in December of 1942 a decision was made, was announced in January, that they’ll take volunteers to form a Japanese American regiment. And 85 percent of those in Hawaii who were qualified volunteered. Pretty good. To make a long story short, I got in at 18. I was second to the last to get in, because I was exempted, ’cause I was in the Aid Station, and I was in college as a pre-med. Doctors and pre-meds were set aside as essential, and those of us in the Aid Station were considered essential. So I quit school, I quit my job, and I went back and I said, “I’m ready.” So I got in. I was one of the youngest in the regiment. I got a commission. I was too young, but they gave me a commission when I was 20. But at the age of 19 I was a platoon leader.</p> <p><strong>While you were trying to enlist, wasn’t this the same time that Japanese Americans on the mainland were being interned?</strong></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: A decision had been made, just about the same time, to put them all in camps. So initially they were put in whatever was available. So thousands spent time in Santa Anita race track, where the horses slept. Those were strange days for them. And when the camps were made, they were just wooden shacks. They were shipped off to faraway, desolate places in New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Arkansas, away from big cities and such, 120,000 of ’em. And none of them had committed a crime. Later on, after the war, when the investigations were held — not a single violator of the law.</p> <p><strong>What were the feelings of your community in Hawaii about what was happening to Japanese Americans on the mainland?</strong></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: We had no idea, because everything was censored. The newspapers were all censored. There were people who knew about it, but not a young kid of 17 or 18.</p> <p>I had no idea. When we got on the ship to go to California, it was my first trip outside Hawaii. We had no idea where we were headed for. When we got to Oakland the word came down we were going to Mississippi. And the only thing that most of us could think about in Mississippi was what we read. They lynch people there. That’s what you read in the papers. So the outlook wasn’t that good. We got on the train, and we were told that whenever we approached a city, a word will come down and we bring down the shade. Understandably, because if we went through this railroad station and the shades were up, and people looked in and saw me, they would think I’m a prisoner of war. I look Asian. So they thought the best way to avoid problems is to lock up the train, and we would lift up the shades when we left the town or the village or the city. So we saw beautiful America — Grand Canyon and places like that. But when we got to Mississippi — this must have been about five days later — we expected the worst, and lo and behold, there were about 50 women lined up at the train station in gray Red Cross uniforms. They were all white women. And it was quite an eye-opener, because in Hawaii I had never been served by a white woman. Most of the waitresses and waiters where I went to dine, the little coffee shops and such, were all Japanese or Chinese or Filipinos. So this was elegant white ladies serving us coffee and donuts. And then, later on, several families opened their farms and invited us to come over. But the real kicker was the U.S.O. About a month after we arrived there, they sent an invitation: “We’re having a dance for you. So if you’re interested, we’ll be at this auditorium,” what have you. And I decided I’d go. My first dance was with a blonde! Never had one before. That’s achievement! When you consider coming up with the background I had, it was an achievement. How can you ever forget that? It was very pleasant. It gave us a little drive that America wasn’t bad, even if they declared that I was an enemy alien. And I was an enemy alien until the end of the war.</p> <p><strong>What was basic training like? Did you get more or less training than other units?</strong></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: We got more than the usual amount of basic training because we trained as a unit. Not to train us off to be shipped off to some division, or some regiment. We were a special unit, and as such we became a combat team. We had our own artillery, our own engineers, our own medic. So it was a unit that could be deployed anywhere. Self-sufficient.</p> <p><strong>How long was the basic training?</strong></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: Eleven months. That’s long, because usually it’s about six months. We had to train to do battle as a unit, not just to fire as individuals.</p> <p><strong>Did you learn something after you joined the military that you hadn’t known before you signed up?</strong></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: You must keep in mind that my mother was a devout Methodist. She was a member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Saloon busters, you know? So going to church was part of my life. At the time of December the 7th, I was a Sunday School teacher. Sang in a choir. I would say I was a good Christian boy. Read from the Bible. I still do. The Ten Commandments. And so here I am now in uniform, and we get out to the firing range, and I find that I’m the best shot in the company. I couldn’t make sense of it, because I had never fired a gun in my life. And the instructor said, “That’s why you’re good. You don’t have any bad habits. You just follow instructions.” So my first assignment, which lasted about a month, I was a sniper. But then they made me an assistant squad leader, so they gave me a couple of stripes. I was too young for that.</p> <p><strong>You were an assistant squad leader?</strong></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: Yep. I became assistant squad leader, and went overseas as such. But in the first battle, everything happens, the squad leader gets killed, I become squad leader. And before you know it I was platoon leader. It was a mess.</p> <p><strong>Why do you say that you were too young for that?</strong></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: Eighteen? Shaved twice a week. There was only one person younger than me. I had to convince my fellow soldiers that I was worthy of being a sergeant. These guys were older, bigger, and I’m a Sunday School teacher. I had to do a lot of things to prove myself to them. Don’t mess with me.</p> <p><strong>We have one more question about the 442nd Regiment. Was it integrated?</strong></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: It was segregated. In the beginning, most of our officers were white, but as we moved along in the war, my colonel had a policy, if there were men worthy of leadership, we make them leaders. On my 20th birthday they submitted my name. I had no idea. I figured I was too young at that age. But one day I found out I was a lieutenant.</p> <p><strong>In 2000, President Bill Clinton honored you with the highest military decoration the United States can bestow, the Medal of Honor. This was 55 years after the war. Do you think that was too late?</strong></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: No, I was surprised. It was something. I knew that a study had been made, because a bill had been introduced to see if Distinguished Service Crosses could be upgraded, not just for us, but throughout the Army, and 21 of us got upgraded. I’ve always felt that if I am deserving of the Medal of Honor, there are many, many others who are. I felt a little bad receiving it, so I received it on behalf of the fellows, because there’s no such thing as a single-handed war. There’s always a support group, and if you didn’t have people who supported you, you couldn’t fight a war.</p> <p><strong>In 2009, you were appointed as the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee. One question that is on a lot of American’s minds right now is how do we dig our way out of our debt?</strong></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: That’s a good question. The bill that we have provided, which has always been passed by the Senate, as it’s part of the Administration’s request, but it was always balanced. So much money income, so much we spend. But it’s a heavy load, because I’m also chairman of the subcommittee on defense appropriations and we’re engaged in two wars now, plus a few other small ones around the world, and it takes a lot of money. The other thing is…</p> <p>Most people may not think about it, but the aftermath of war is very costly. Costly not just in lives, but the treatment. Because of the efficiency of our transportation system, the efficiency of our medical technicians, people are surviving. If you go to Walter Reed right now, you’ll see dozens of double amputees, and you’ll see triple amputees and quadruple amputees, which was almost impossible in World War II. They did not survive. We had one of the highest casualties in Europe, my regiment. We were also the most decorated in the history of the United States. But no double amputee survived, and I know we had several. No brain injuries survived. So what happens? Imagine yourself as a wife, and you have to look at a brain-injured husband for the rest of your life, and he can’t talk to you. But we’re paying for this. That’s the easy part, money payment. But how do you pay for the misery? So if we can, we should be able to avoid war.</p> <p><strong>Senator, what does the American Dream mean to you? How do you define the American Dream?</strong></p> <p>Daniel Inouye: It’s a dream where you live a life that’s powerful, one in which you can get married if you want to, raise kids if you want to, get educated to the limit of your capacity, and do what makes you happy, because we all are looking for the good life. We don’t want to go through life with just fighting, fighting, fighting. I’ve gone through life. I got into Congress when we had just started Vietnam. Before that, I had friends going to Korea. My brothers went to Korea. And these were war after war after war. Today, we have a powerful military that serves as a deterrent, but the enemy we have today is not like World War II, where you sign a piece of paper and the war is over. Today they’re not in uniform. In my time we knew what the enemy looked like, we knew his weapons systems and such. Today, your cab driver may be the person, you have no idea. I don’t know how we got into this fix, but we’re there.</p> <p><strong>Thank you so much for talking with us today, Senator. Aloha.</strong></p> </div>  </aside>  <div class="read-more__toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#full-interview"><a href="#" class="sans-4 btn">Read full interview</a></div> </article> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane" id="gallery" role="tabpanel"> <section class="isotope-wrapper">  <header class="toolbar toolbar--gallery bg-white clearfix"> <div class="col-md-6"> <div class="serif-4">Daniel K. 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Posing atop staircase exiting from Air Force One (L-R) are Rep. Spark Matsunaga, Sen. Daniel Inouye, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Sen. Hiram Fong, Lloyd Hand. Honolulu, Hawaii Airport. (LBJ Library photo by Yoichi Okamoto)" data-image-copyright="A1883-3a" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-021-inouye-lbj-1-380x256.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-021-inouye-lbj-1-760x512.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.67368421052632" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-020-inouye-lbj-1.jpg" data-image-caption="February 5, 1966: Clockwise from left: Gen. Andrew Goodpaster, Gen. Earle Wheeler, Sen. Daniel Inouye, Sec. Robert McNamara, Sec. Dean Rusk, Amb. Averell Harriman (partially seen behind Rusk), President Lyndon B. Johnson, on Air Force One en route from Washington, D.C. to Honolulu, Hawaii for the Honolulu Conference on the Vietnam War. (LBJ Library photo by Yoichi Okamoto)" data-image-copyright="A1881-27" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-020-inouye-lbj-1-380x256.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-020-inouye-lbj-1-760x512.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.78552631578947" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-019-inouye-JFKWHP-KN-17564.jpg" data-image-caption="" data-image-copyright="ino0-019-inouye-JFKWHP-KN-17564" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-019-inouye-JFKWHP-KN-17564-380x299.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-019-inouye-JFKWHP-KN-17564-760x597.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.78552631578947" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-018-inouye-JFKWHP-AR7654-A.jpg" data-image-caption="January 10, 1963: President John F. Kennedy visits with Senator Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii (far left) and his family in the West Wing Colonnade, The White House, Washington, D.C. Senator Inouye’s family (L-R): Hyotaro Inouye (father), Maggie Inouye (wife), Robert Inouye (brother), John Inouye (brother). (Abbie Rowe. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston)" data-image-copyright="ino0-018-inouye-JFKWHP-AR7654-A" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-018-inouye-JFKWHP-AR7654-A-380x299.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-018-inouye-JFKWHP-AR7654-A-760x597.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.88684210526316" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-017-inouye-Daniel-Inouye2-official_photo-PUBLIC-DOMAIN.jpeg" data-image-caption="Daniel Inouye, official Senate photo portrait, 2008. (United States Congress)" data-image-copyright="ino0-017-inouye-Daniel-Inouye2-official_photo-PUBLIC-DOMAIN" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-017-inouye-Daniel-Inouye2-official_photo-PUBLIC-DOMAIN-380x337.jpeg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-017-inouye-Daniel-Inouye2-official_photo-PUBLIC-DOMAIN-760x674.jpeg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.3996316758748" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-016-inouye-Daniel_Inouye_official_photo-PUBLIC-DOMAIN.jpg" data-image-caption="Daniel Inouye, official Senate photo portrait, date unknown. (United States Congress)" data-image-copyright="ino0-016-inouye-Daniel_Inouye_official_photo-PUBLIC-DOMAIN" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-016-inouye-Daniel_Inouye_official_photo-PUBLIC-DOMAIN-271x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-016-inouye-Daniel_Inouye_official_photo-PUBLIC-DOMAIN-543x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.2755102040816" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-014-inouye-DKIpostwar.jpg" data-image-caption="Hyotaro Inouye welcomes his son Daniel home from the war in 1945. The young officer wears a metal hook in place of the arm he lost in combat. (Courtesy of Senator Daniel Inouye)" data-image-copyright="ino0-014-inouye-DKIpostwar" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-014-inouye-DKIpostwar-298x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-014-inouye-DKIpostwar.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.7953125" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-013-inouye-DKIMOH.jpg" data-image-caption="June 21, 2000: President Bill Clinton presents Daniel Inouye with the Medal of Honor at a ceremony in the White House. (Courtesy of Senator Daniel Inouye)" data-image-copyright="ino0-013-inouye-DKIMOH" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-013-inouye-DKIMOH-380x302.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-013-inouye-DKIMOH.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.7250673854447" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-015-inouye-DKIpreWWII.jpg" data-image-caption="Although he was exempt for the draft, Daniel Inouye volunteered and joined the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the legendary "Go For Broke" unit of Japanese Americans. (Courtesy of Senator Daniel Inouye)" data-image-copyright="ino0-015-inouye-DKIpreWWII" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-015-inouye-DKIpreWWII-220x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-015-inouye-DKIpreWWII.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-012-inouye-DKIFamily.jpg" data-image-caption="After returning from World War II, Daniel Inouye earned a law degree and embarked on a political career, with the support of his proud family. From L to R: his father, Hyotaro; his mother, Kame; and his wife, Maggie. " data-image-copyright="ino0-012-inouye-DKIFamily" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-012-inouye-DKIFamily-380x251.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-012-inouye-DKIFamily.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.438202247191" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-011-inouye-DKIChild2.jpg" data-image-caption="Daniel Inouye, one-and-a-half years old in Honolulu, 1924. (Courtesy of Senator Daniel Inouye)" data-image-copyright="ino0-011-inouye-DKIChild2" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-011-inouye-DKIChild2-264x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-011-inouye-DKIChild2.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.3430656934307" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-010-inouye-50603404.jpg" data-image-caption="Senator Inouye listens to testimony during the Watergate hearings, 1973. The Senator was widely praised for his work on the Senate committee investigating the White House scandal. " data-image-copyright="ino0-010-inouye-50603404" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-010-inouye-50603404-283x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-010-inouye-50603404.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.95652173913043" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-009-inouye.jpg" data-image-caption="Daniel Inouye arrived in Washington in 1959 as Hawaii's first United States Representative. (Courtesy of Senator Daniel Inouye)" data-image-copyright="ino0-009-inouye" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-009-inouye-380x363.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-009-inouye.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.97894736842105" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-008-inouye.jpg" data-image-caption="Representative Inouye meets with President John F. Kennedy in the White House, 1962. President Kennedy took a special interest in the freshman Senator from Hawaii. (Courtesy of Senator Daniel Inouye) " data-image-copyright="KN-20911" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-008-inouye-380x372.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-008-inouye-760x744.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.2658227848101" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-007-inouye.jpg" data-image-caption="Senator Daniel Inouye and his mother, Kame Imanaga, welcome Vice President Lyndon Johnson to Hawaii. (Courtesy of Senator Daniel Inouye)" data-image-copyright="ino0-007-inouye" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-007-inouye-300x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-007-inouye.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4409221902017" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-006-inouye.jpg" data-image-caption="Daniel Inouye distinguished himself quickly in the U.S. Army, serving with distinction in France and Italy. (Courtesy of Senator Daniel Inouye)" data-image-copyright="ino0-006-inouye" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-006-inouye-264x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-006-inouye.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66578947368421" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-005-inouye-CORBIS-YM008885.jpg" data-image-caption="Perennially popular in his native state, Daniel Inouye prepares to address a public meeting in Hawaii in 1983. (© Michael S. Yamashita/CORBIS)" data-image-copyright="Senator Daniel Inouye" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-005-inouye-CORBIS-YM008885-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-005-inouye-CORBIS-YM008885-760x506.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4814814814815" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-004-inouye-CORBIS-WL005620.jpg" data-image-caption="Daniel Inouye in his Senate office, 1964. (© Wally McNamee/CORBIS) " data-image-copyright="Senator Daniel Inouye" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-004-inouye-CORBIS-WL005620-256x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-004-inouye-CORBIS-WL005620-513x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.0354223433243" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-003-inouye-CORBIS-U1363201.jpg" data-image-caption="Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield gives freshman Democratic Senators a tour of the Capitol at the opening of the 88th Congress in 1963. L to R: Thomas J. McIntyre of New Hampshire; George S. McGovern of South Dakota; Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts; Mike Mansfield of Montana; Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii; and Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)" data-image-copyright="Political Leaders Observing Capitol Sites" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-003-inouye-CORBIS-U1363201-367x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-003-inouye-CORBIS-U1363201-734x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.99605263157895" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-002-inouye-CORBIS-U1325779-4.jpg" data-image-caption="President John F. Kennedy welcomes a fellow veteran, Representative Daniel Inouye, to the White House in April 1962. (© Bettmann/CORBIS ) " data-image-copyright="President Kennedy and Daniel Inouye" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-002-inouye-CORBIS-U1325779-4-380x378.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-002-inouye-CORBIS-U1325779-4-760x757.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66578947368421" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-001-inouye-CORBIS-42-25390204.jpg" data-image-caption="Senator Daniel Inouye discusses the military relationship between the U.S. and Japan at a 2010 conference in New York City. (© Dennis Van Tin/Retna Ltd./Corbis)" data-image-copyright="U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye discusses military relationship between the U.S. and Japan" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-001-inouye-CORBIS-42-25390204-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ino0-001-inouye-CORBIS-42-25390204-760x506.jpg"></div>  </figure>    </div> </section> </div> </div> <div class="container"> <footer class="editorial-article__footer col-md-8 col-md-offset-4"> <div class="editorial-article__next-link sans-3"> <a href="#"><strong>What's next:</strong> <span class="editorial-article__next-link-title">profile</span></a> </div> <ul class="social list-unstyled list-inline ssk-group m-b-0"> <li class="list-inline-item"><a href="" class="ssk ssk-facebook" data-gtm-category="social" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Shared Achiever on Facebook"><i class="icon-icon_facebook-circle"></i></a></li> <li class="list-inline-item"><a href="" class="ssk ssk-twitter" data-gtm-category="social" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Shared Achiever on Twitter"><i class="icon-icon_twitter-circle"></i></a></li>  <li class="list-inline-item"><a href="" class="ssk ssk-email" data-gtm-category="social" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Shared Achiever via Email"><i class="icon-icon_email-circle"></i></a></li> </ul> <time class="editorial-article__last-updated sans-6">This page last revised on March 19, 2020</time> <div class="sans-4"><a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/how-to-cite" target="_blank">How to cite this page</a></div> </footer> </div> <div class="container interview-related-achievers"> <hr class="m-t-3 m-b-3"/> <footer class="clearfix small-blocks text-xs-center"> <h3 class="m-b-3 serif-3">If you are inspired by this achiever’s story, you might also enjoy:</h3> <div class="centered-blocks"> <div class="isotope-achiever public-service public-service racism-discrimination small-town-rural-upbringing spiritual-religious help-mankind pioneer " data-year-inducted="2004" data-achiever-name="Lewis"> <div class="achiever-block view-grid"> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/congressman-john-r-lewis/"> <figure class="ratio-container ratio-container--square bg-black"> <div class="lazyload box achiever-block__image" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/lewis_760_ac-190x190.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/04/lewis_760_ac-380x380.jpg"></div> <div class="achiever-block__overlay"></div> <figcaption class="text-xs-center achiever-block__text"> <div class="display--table"> <div class="display--table-cell"> <div class="achiever-block__text--center"> <div class="achiever-block__name text-brand-primary">Congressman John R. 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Gorbachev</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/nadine-gordimer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Nadine Gordimer</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/stephen-jay-gould/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Stephen Jay Gould, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/carol-greider-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carol W. Greider, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/john-grisham/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Grisham</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/sir-john-gurdon/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir John Gurdon</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/dorothy-hamill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dorothy Hamill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/demis-hassabis-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Demis Hassabis, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/lauryn-hill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lauryn Hill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/sir-edmund-hillary/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Edmund Hillary</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/reid-hoffman/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Reid Hoffman</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/khaled-hosseini/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Khaled Hosseini, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/ron-howard/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ron Howard</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/john-hume/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Hume</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/louis-ignarro-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Louis Ignarro, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/daniel-inouye/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Daniel K. Inouye</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/jeremy-irons/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jeremy Irons</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/john-irving/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Irving</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/kazuo-ishiguro/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Kazuo Ishiguro</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/sir-peter-jackson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Peter Jackson</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/donald-c-johanson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Donald C. Johanson, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/frank-m-johnson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank M. Johnson, Jr.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/philip-johnson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Philip C. Johnson</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/chuck-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Chuck Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/james-earl-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">James Earl Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/quincy-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Quincy Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/beverly-joubert/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Beverly Joubert</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/dereck-joubert/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dereck Joubert</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/paul-kagame/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Paul Kagame</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/thomas-keller-2/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Thomas Keller</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/anthony-m-kennedy/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Anthony M. Kennedy</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/carole-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carole King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/b-b-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">B.B. King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/coretta-scott-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Coretta Scott King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/henry-kissinger-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Henry A. Kissinger, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/willem-j-kolff/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Willem J. Kolff, M.D., Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/wendy-kopp/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Wendy Kopp</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/henry-r-kravis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Henry R. Kravis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/nicholas-d-kristof/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Nicholas D. Kristof</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/mike-krzyzewski/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mike Krzyzewski</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/ray-kurzwell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ray Kurzweil</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/eric-lander-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Eric S. Lander, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/robert-s-langer-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Robert S. Langer, Sc.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/richard-leakey/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Richard E. Leakey</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/leon-lederman-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Leon Lederman, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/robert-lefkowitz-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/congressman-john-r-lewis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Congressman John R. Lewis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/maya-lin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Maya Lin</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/george-lucas/"><span class="achiever-list-name">George Lucas</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/paul-b-maccready-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Paul B. MacCready, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/norman-mailer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Norman Mailer</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/peyton-manning/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Peyton Manning</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/wynton-marsalis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Wynton Marsalis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/john-c-mather-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John C. Mather, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/johnny-mathis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Johnny Mathis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/ernst-mayr-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ernst Mayr, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/willie-mays/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Willie Mays</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/frank-mccourt/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank McCourt</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/david-mccullough/"><span class="achiever-list-name">David McCullough</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/audra-mcdonald/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Audra McDonald</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/admiral-william-h-mcraven/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Admiral William H. McRaven, USN</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/w-s-merwin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">W. S. Merwin</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/reinhold-messner/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Reinhold Messner</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/james-a-michener/"><span class="achiever-list-name">James A. Michener</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/marvin-minsky-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Marvin Minsky, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/mario-j-molina-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mario J. Molina, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/n-scott-momaday-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">N. Scott Momaday, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/story-musgrave/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Story Musgrave, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/ralph-nader/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ralph Nader</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/peggy-noonan/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Peggy Noonan</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/jessye-norman/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jessye Norman</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/tommy-norris/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lt. Thomas R. Norris, USN</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/joyce-carol-oates/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Joyce Carol Oates</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/pierre-omidyar/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Pierre Omidyar</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/jimmy-page/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jimmy Page</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/larry-page/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Larry Page</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/arnold-palmer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Arnold Palmer</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/leon-panetta/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Leon Panetta</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/rosa-parks/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Rosa Parks</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/suzan-lori-parks/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Suzan-Lori Parks</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/linus-pauling/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Linus C. Pauling, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/shimon-peres/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Shimon Peres</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/itzhak-perlman/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Itzhak Perlman</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/general-david-petraeus/"><span class="achiever-list-name">General David H. Petraeus, USA</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/sidney-poitier/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sidney Poitier</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/general-colin-l-powell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">General Colin L. Powell, USA</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/harold-prince/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Harold Prince</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/venki-ramakrishnan-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Venki Ramakrishnan, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/lord-martin-rees/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lord Martin Rees</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/lloyd-richards/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lloyd Richards</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/sally-ride-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sally K. Ride, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/sonny-rollins/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sonny Rollins</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/anthony-romero/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Anthony D. Romero</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/james-rosenquist/"><span class="achiever-list-name">James Rosenquist</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/pete-rozelle/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Pete Rozelle</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/bill-russell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Bill Russell</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/albie-sachs/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Albie Sachs</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/oliver-sacks-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Oliver Sacks, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/jonas-salk-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jonas Salk, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/frederick-sanger-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frederick Sanger, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/george-b-schaller-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">George B. Schaller, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/barry-scheck/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Barry Scheck</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/richard-evans-schultes-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Richard Evans Schultes, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/general-h-norman-schwarzkopf/"><span class="achiever-list-name">General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/stephen-schwarzman/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Stephen A. Schwarzman</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/glenn-t-seaborg-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/neil-sheehan/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Neil Sheehan</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/admiral-alan-shepard-jr/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Admiral Alan B. Shepard, Jr., USN</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/ellen-johnson-sirleaf/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ellen Johnson Sirleaf</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/carlos-slim/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carlos Slim Helú</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/frederick-w-smith/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frederick W. Smith</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/stephen-sondheim/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Stephen Sondheim</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/sonia-sotomayor/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sonia Sotomayor</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/wole-soyinka/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Wole Soyinka</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/esperanza-spalding/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Esperanza Spalding</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/martha-stewart/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Martha Stewart</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/admiral-james-b-stockdale/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Admiral James B. Stockdale, USN</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/hilary-swank/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Hilary Swank</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/amy-tan/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Amy Tan</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/dame-kiri-te-kanawa/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dame Kiri Te Kanawa</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/edward-teller-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Edward Teller, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/twyla-tharp/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Twyla Tharp</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/wayne-thiebaud/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Wayne Thiebaud</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/lt-michael-e-thornton-usn/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lt. Michael E. Thornton, USN</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/clyde-tombaugh/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Clyde Tombaugh</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235240/https://achievement.org/achiever/charles-h-townes-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Charles H. 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