Kokua needed. I am deep in a world-class flamewar in GD over the correct use of the term "haole".

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14. Our next door neighbor was a Master Sargeant at the Marine base in Kaneohe...

His daughter was in my class. The football player came from Camp LeJeune before Hawai'i and lived in Waimanalo. The last one was just some random freshman when I was a senior.

As for Punahou, I knew a couple of kids in Jr. Hi who peeled off to Punahou, but that took kala my family emphatically did not have. I really admire how the president's grandmother et al pulled together to see that the one child they had with them could have that opportunity (I'm the eldest of 4).

When I was a young(ish) married in the mid 1970s my then husband and baby and I lived in a condo in Waianae. We bought it during construction and had no idea the neighborhood would turn into overflow housing for the military -- enlisted men and their families, a few in the Sgt. range. Those wives were some truly unhappy women; one of them told me that Hawai'i should be classified as a "hardship post."

As an aside, there were a large number of AAs. There were also I thought were a surprising number of black/white couples given the era we were just emerging from.

And I was a local haole....