Daniel Inouye had been shocked, and very hurt to face anti-Japanese racism and hatred of 'Nips” after the war. But over the next decades he seemed more and more to mask his passion.The son of Japanese immigrants, Daniel Ken Inouye volunteered for the U.S. Army after the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 and joined the famed Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Team. He lost his right arm in a firefight with Germans in Italy inDaniel Inouye, the senior senator from Hawaii and the president pro-tempore of the US Senate, died Monday at the age of 88. was born in 1924 to Japanese immigrants in Hawaii — before Hawaii was a state. Inouye was elected to the US House in 1959, theThe senator had earlier risen to be Captain Inouye, a Congressional Medal of Honor winner in Italy, losing an arm as he ran ahead of his platoon and personally destroying three German machine gun nests on a steep ridge inInouye served in Hawaii's congressional delegation since 1959, when Hawaii became a state. He was elected to the Senate in 1962, making him the most senior senator and the second longest serving in U.S. history, after
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