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In response to last week’s letter, “Aloha spirit has nothing to do with war” (Star-Advertiser, March 18), do the writer’s sentiments also apply to Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza?
The problem with Americans is that they have never been attacked, occupied, defending the land and severely beaten like many other countries in the world.
There’s a big tea party on Sunday, but you won’t have to hold out your pinky. Instead, wave a flag during this big anniversary celebrating colonial revolutionary fervor that first came two weeks before the famous Boston Tea Party.
The article about the proposed $25,000 monster home penalty could be construed as the monster home developers’ kiss-the-pinky-finger fee (“City proposes greater fines for ‘monster homes’,” Star-Advertiser, Aug. 24).
Before Lt. Commander John Wesley Harvey took the helm of the submarine USS Thresher in January 1963, he was the executive officer aboard the USS Sea Dragon during an historic Arctic cruise. Prior to that, he spent three years aboard the legendary USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered naval vessel, during the 1950s. He was the sub’s reactor control officer in 1958, when the Nautilus became the first watercraft in history to reach the North Pole. Before Lt. Commander Pat Garner stepped in as executive officer, or second-in-command, of the Thresher in December 1962, he took part in...