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douglas9

(4,473 posts) Tue Oct 25, 2022, 12:05 PM Oct 2022

We salute the USS Daniel Inouye for flying its badass battle flag on the way into port

The Navy warship USS Daniel Inouye marked its first official stop at the Hawaiian island of Kailua-Kona last week, and it did so in style: with the ship’s trademark ‘Go For Broke’ battle flag flying in the wind.

Named for Army veteran and late former Sen. Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hi), the first Japanese-American elected to Congress and Medal of Honor recipient for his courageous actions during World War II, the Navy’s newest Arleigh Burke-class destroyer first unveiled its distinctive battle flag during its commissioning in December 2021.

The flag’s core features include a hand grasping a torch and the motto ‘Go For Broke,’ both borrowed from the insignia and motto of the highly decorated 442nd Regimental Combat Team with which Inouye served, an infantry unit comprised primarily of second-generation Japanese-Americans during a time when anti-Japanese racism was prevalent and internment was a matter of national policy.

https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/navy-destroyer-uss-daniel-inouye-battle-flag/

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We salute the USS Daniel Inouye for flying its badass battle flag on the way into port (Original Post) douglas9 Oct 2022 OP

Pics underpants Oct 2022 #1

Okay! atreides1 Oct 2022 #2

I am glad you posted this. pandr32 Oct 2022 #3

I graduated from high school in Hawaii in '68. Daniel Inouye was my senator. panader0 Oct 2022 #4

The Senator spoke at my 1965 graduation from Kailua High School, O'ahu Hekate Oct 2022 #15

It's a wonderful design! CrispyQ Oct 2022 #5

A salute from an old tin can sailor.. Permanut Oct 2022 #6

Old Tin Cans never die shipmate maxrandb Oct 2022 #12

This message was self-deleted by its author Baked Potato Oct 2022 #7

My father mentioned a couple times that Japanese-Americans Tetrachloride Oct 2022 #8

wow !! hey thanks for this YoshidaYui Oct 2022 #9

Dan Inouye was my Senator, & this makes me proud. But -- there is no such island as Kailua-Kona Hekate Oct 2022 #10

Maybe they meant the Hawaiian island port of Kailua-Kona? liberalla Oct 2022 #13

It has a harbor big enough for a battleship? Hekate Oct 2022 #14

I love it! What a tribute to a fine man who honorably served his country in many ways. liberalla Oct 2022 #11

underpants

(186,298 posts)

1. Pics

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Tue Oct 25, 2022, 12:17 PM

Oct 2022

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atreides1

(16,332 posts)

2. Okay!

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Tue Oct 25, 2022, 12:19 PM

Oct 2022

Having been born and raised in Hawaii, where my mother's side of the family have been at least since the time of Kamehameha I...I can tell you that there is no Hawaiian island of "Kailua-Kona"!

Kailua-Kona is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States. It is also known as Kailua (a name it shares with a community located on the windward side of Oʻahu), as Kona (a name it shares with the district to which it belongs) and as Kona Town. Kailua-Kona is the second-largest settlement on the island of Hawaii (after Hilo) and the largest settlement on the west side of the island, where it is the center of commerce and the tourist industry.

pandr32

(12,097 posts)

3. I am glad you posted this.

Reply to atreides1 (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 25, 2022, 12:51 PM

Oct 2022

I live on Hawaii Island at present.

panader0

(25,816 posts)

4. I graduated from high school in Hawaii in '68. Daniel Inouye was my senator.

Reply to atreides1 (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 25, 2022, 01:02 PM

Oct 2022

I remember his campaign slogan was Daniel In Every Way. A great man.
The 442 had some of the highest casualties of any army group in WWII.

Hekate

(94,283 posts)

15. The Senator spoke at my 1965 graduation from Kailua High School, O'ahu

Reply to panader0 (Reply #4)

Tue Oct 25, 2022, 03:06 PM

Oct 2022

I really admired him

CrispyQ

(38,025 posts)

5. It's a wonderful design!

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Tue Oct 25, 2022, 01:04 PM

Oct 2022

Thanks for posting!

Permanut

(6,593 posts)

6. A salute from an old tin can sailor..

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Tue Oct 25, 2022, 01:30 PM

Oct 2022

A salute to Daniel Inouye and to the tin can bearing his name.

Mine was the Sampson, DDG-10, which went to the scrap yard in '94.

maxrandb

(15,814 posts)

12. Old Tin Cans never die shipmate

Reply to Permanut (Reply #6)

Tue Oct 25, 2022, 02:25 PM

Oct 2022

USS SAMPSON (DDG 102)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Sampson_(DDG-102)

Much respect to Senator Inouye. A true American hero.

BTW -Arleigh Burke Destroyers, Amphibs like the WASP and CARTER HALL classes, NIMIZ and FORD Class Carriers and the SSBNs and SSNs, are a good reason I don't worry about Putin.

Greatest Navy in the world!