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Daniel K. Inouye, hands down the finest senator in the history of Hawaii, has died of respiratory complications at the age of 88. A medical volunteer at Pearl Harbor during  the Japanese bombings, Inouye headed off to Europe while more than 7,000 of his fellow Japanese-Americans were in internment camps. Inouye was a member of the first all-Nisei volunteer unit, which became the most decorated unit in American military history. In 1945, during an assault on three machine gun emplacements, Inouye destroyed one with a grenade, another with submachine gun fire, then, already shot in the stomach, had his right arm severed by enemy fire, with a grenade still gripped in his right hand. He retrieved the arm and destroyed the last bunker with the grenade, earning the Medal of Honor. From the start of Hawaii’s statehood, he represented it in Washington, DC, first in Congress, then, since 1962, in the Senate, the first Japanese-American in both houses. He was in influential member of the committees investigating Watergate and the Iran-Contra Affair, and helped reform the intelligence committee as chairman of the Senate Committee on Intelligence.