Allen Hoe to speak at Memorial Day observance in D.C.
From
the
Advertiser:Allen Hoe, a Kailua resident and Vietnam veteran whose son was killed in Iraq, will be among the speakers at the Memorial Day observance Monday at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
[...]
Hoe's 27-year-old son, 1st Lt. Nainoa K. Hoe, was killed on Jan. 22 by a sniper in Mosul, Iraq. The platoon leader was a 1995 Kamehameha Schools graduate and University of Hawai'i ROTC standout.
Allen
Hoe is the
Acting
1st Associate Justice for the Acting Government of the Hawaiian
Kingdom, and was the one who personally
arranged to have a Hawaiian flag sent to The Hague in time to have it
raised next to Britain, France, Germany and The Netherlands in December 2000
during the Lance Larsen vs. Hawaiian Kingdom case heard before the Permanent
Court of Arbitration.Nainoa Hoe's
Hawaiian nationalism was noted
in a very moving Washington
Post article at the time of his
death.
Posted: Wed - May 25, 2005 at 06:16 AM