By Amanda Grace Johnson, NBC News. The Senate lost a World War II combat veteran and Medal of Honor recipient on Monday evening when Hawaii Democrat Daniel K. Inouye died of respiratory complications at the age of 88. Inouye, the Senate's most
When Daniel K. Inouye was 17, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. An aspiring surgeon, he spent much of the next week helping care for the wounded at an elementary school in his native Honolulu. He wanted to enlist immediately but couldn't. Japanese
Multiple Democratic senators on the appropriations committee had disparaged Inouye.
HONOLULU — On Dec. 7, 1941, high school senior Daniel Inouye knew he and other Japanese-Americans would face trouble when he saw Japanese dive bombers, torpedo planes and fighters on their way to bomb Pearl Harbor and other Oahu military
Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii passed away today of respiratory complications. He was 88. Inouye, a Democrat, came to Washington as Hawaii's first Congressman in 1959 and was elected to the Senate in 1962 and served
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