From saintly Corina — If Puritan means pure — I’m tainted as we ALL are. Being 100% pure IS very rare as finding a tiny needle in a mountainous haystack. 100% pure is a RARE find indeed. For the 99.9% majority of us are considered deplorable misfits, outcasts, expelled applicants. ALL being transformed from glory to glory by PURE GRACE and MERCY and CHRIST’S FORGIVENESS. Ahui’ho
My feedback — In Christ, certainly so. In this physical realm — you’re a prude
, as we all aspire to be
From Seto Sensei — Corina expresses the very heart  and core of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation!!!! All of us from Adam and Eve who lost the glory and then were transformed back to glory sunrise  by pure grace and mercy and Christ’s forgiveness all the way to the apostle who had severe anger management issues John who recorded the Revelations he received from God that our world including all people who rely on Jesus will be transformed to glory too in God’s timing. Beautiful summary by Corina who is pure in heart because of Jesus. I saw Harvey Tajiri as a coach who was positive and encouraging. Gary Matsumoto who could be super sensitive himself at times about coaches, as he was with Bob Ota, had no problems with Harvey Tajiri. Also great info about Herman Manalili and how he might have contributed to St. Louis being even more explosive than they were in basketball, baseball, track and even football. Wow! Love how Herman attributes Dennis Kagawa to have been the engine of the team. He was often the coach on the floor who made Sam Wilson and others look really, really good. My feedback — Corina’s the discussion conscience in Hilo for good reason — Scripture inspires hope & love. Key is Corina’s correlation of Book, Chapter, Verse  w/issue at hand. Key is Christ. |
Curtis Narimatsu 
From SS — So tragic!! Didn’t realize that Gary Jr. and his family like most (all?) families including mine have dark gothic secrets as Tolstoy remarks in the opening lines of Anna Karenina. As Viet Nam veteran who suffers with PTSD , and a 67 basketball teammate A. Martins says to me when I run in to him, “we all got issues.” Yes, I do including family dysfunction.
Willy Okino Thompson 1924-2018 of Hinano St — as Dept. of Water Supply hydrology engineer — Willy hired fellow 442nd combat veterans Gary Sr. 1923-2001, Rusty Kamimura of Shinmachi, etc. Gary Sr. was forever grateful to Willy for lifetime job & economic & food security
Inter-connected, as you said earlier. Gary Sr.’s kazoku — didn’t connect the dots. Willy’s wife was Margie Oka of Waiakea Waena Homestead at Kilauea Ave., whose dad was the 1st Nisei legislator in our Territorial Legislature yr. 1930, GOP Tasaku Oka. Willy was my dad’s kobun
in the 442nd RCT (Regimental Combat Team). Gary Sr. was very deferential to Dad. I respected Coach Matsumoto. Coach was 10 yrs. younger than Dad. Willy was awarded a Bronze Star WWII. Dad was awarded a Silver Star.
Hakka sugar master (incl. Ponahawai sugar plantation along Alenaio stream across today’s Central Fire Station) Tong Ai Yee’s wife Ala’i was the older sister of Joseph Nawahi’s wife A’ima, who was a great royalist or monarchist to Lili’u. Tong Ai Yee became Catholic like his plantation owner predecessor Aiko (Bill Kikuchi’s 2nd wife Bobbi’s immigrant Hakka ancestor). Ai Yee’s (NO relation to Amau’ulu arsehole Donald Tong) & Ala’i daughters married John Kai (Pee Wee’s great-grandpa)(John Kai’s Ma’oli ancestor wahine was the 1st Hawai’i Island child baptized into Catholicism), Adam Baker (theater impresario & member of Ma’oli Baker dynasty — Pi’ihonua from singing bridge lighthouse to Pu’u O’o Ranch along Mauna Kea Mana Road — 22 mile marker DKI hwy), & Aluli, MD Emmett’s great-grandad. Emmett’s tutu kane or grandpa was the earliest factoring (hui) acolyte. As w/Hung Wai when Hung Wai died, grandpa Aluli gave everything to charity — that caused a stir in the family. Aluli’s antipathy to unearned inherited wealth (think barometer role model Andrew Carnegie).