Then the traffic would really be intolerable. Everyone on this island curses the traffic. As a former high school wrestler myself, I can appreciate Spiker's hard work and determination. Jonathan Spiker's victory proves that discipline brings success. It is deplorable to sanitize and rewrite history simply to make us feel more comfortable.
Reality is often harsh and offensive, and such relics memorialize the endurance of past generations.
I doubt it. Bob Akamine Hilo Ben Kau saw war from inside prison One of the last surviving prisoners of war of the Japanese capture of Wake Island died April 14 in Tripler Army Medical Center. Benjamin Xanwah Kau was a teenage civilian, working on a defense project at Wake Island in December 1941 when the Japanese attacked the military garrison on the tiny island. The first attack was repulsed, with heavy loss of life to the invading forces. Kau, in recalling the wartime incident, said many dead Japanese washed ashore, and he and others, having no other way to dispose of the bodies, set massive bonfires to cremate them.