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Hawai‘i History

Columnists

When you’re on vacation, you can cut loose a little bit. This attitude explains why tourists in Hawai‘i can be susceptible to renting vehicles they’d never consider otherwise. Partly this can be due to the benign weather that requires less protection from nature, but it’s also just the vacation mindset. Let’s look at a few of the kooky rental cars that tourists went a little crazy with in the past.

Back in 1947, French auto manufacturer Renault introduced its 4CV model, extremely small and as low-priced as possible for a country still economically depressed from the effects of World War II. In late 1959, as this model neared the end of its production run (which would come in 1961), Renault provided 50 of them to the Italian custom auto body builder Ghia to create what was called the “Jolly” — a completely stripped-down machine with no doors or windows, a fabric top and wicker seats woven onto metal frames.

In the USA, the Jolly was renamed the Beach Wagon. A Honolulu company bought a “fleet” of them - no number specified, but perhaps five or more - and provided each with a small plastic portable tape recorder. Tourists who rented one of these from Tropical Tape Tours had a choice of four different O‘ahu tours to accompany their drives, with a map showing numbered locations where the tape should be turned on for an audio description. Ads described the vehicle as “The car with a voice / Takes you where you want to go / Tells you what you want to know.”

Tropical Tape Tours functioned from at least May to December 1961, when one of its Beach Wagons sustained an estimated $200 in damage when another car being parked nearby jumped a curb and landed on the Renault that was located at a slightly lower level, knocking it on its side.

With only 50 Renault Beach Wagons made, survivors today are extremely rare and sell in the range of $50,000 if they show up in specialized car auctions. Very similar customizations by Ghia of both the Fiat 500 and 600 models, from Italy, look confusingly similar to the Renault at first glance. The Fiat 500 Beach Wagons were definitely also sold and driven in Hawai‘i. While these Fiats are also desirable collector vehicles they’re a bit more common since 650 of them were manufactured. And at least one American company today rebuilds original vintage Fiats to the same look as the historic Beach Wagons.

The Jeep started its life as far removed from carefree fun as possible, since it was invented as a purely military vehicle for use under tough conditions in World War II in the early 1940s. Driven in both Europe and Asia, in situations from bitter cold to steamy heat, the Jeep became immediately famous as a symbol of the American military. Millions developed a real affection for it, and back in postwar civilian life the Jeep moved successfully into a specific workhorse niche.

The Willys-Overland Corporation of Toledo, Ohio, formerly a small manufacturer of standard passenger cars, shifted in the 1950s to focusing on the Jeeps it had been manufacturing since World War II. One of the company’s salesmen in its foreign / export division encountered distinctively-painted Jeeps at the Las Brisas resort in Acapulco, Mexico and thought Willys might make similar models in bright colors for use in warm-weather vacation spots. 

In 1959 this came true with the Jeep Gala, a no-frills model painted green, blue, or pink (by far the most popular of the three colors) with striped vinyl fabric upholstery and a similar top trimmed with a fringe. Hawai‘i seems to have been this car’s first major market with the first 10 cars arriving in late May 1959 to be sold by VHY Motors to Avis Gray Line rental cars. The distinctive and unique pink Jeeps immediately attracted much attention and were instantly popular with tourists, so in succession 40 more were ordered by Avis, then 10 more, and finally 20 more to arrive in January 1960, which included a few blue ones. By September ‘59 the Gala models had spread to Cuba and the Virgin Islands. For some reason, even though Hawai‘i had just become the 50th state, Willys handled these sales through their export division under the Gala name while Jeeps sold to the other states were marketed as the Surrey. The latter name was a reference to the popular song “Surrey With The Fringe On Top” from the 1943 musical play “Oklahoma!” which had been made into a well-publicized big-budget Hollywood film in 1955. Like the horsedrawn vehicle in the song, the Jeep Surrey also sported a fabric fringe around the edge of its vinyl fabric soft top, adding to its carefree spirit that so many tourists were attracted to.

During this period, the extremely wealthy industrialist Henry J. Kaiser was being heavily publicized for his development of the Hawaiian Village Hotel in Waikīkī, which he’d started in 1955. Everyone locally knew that Kaiser’s favorite color was pink, and even the heavy equipment that began building his Hawai‘i Kai subdivision in 1960 was painted that color, so it was assumed that the pink Jeeps must be his doing. This idea was bolstered by Willys having been one of his subsidiary companies since 1953 — but newspaper stories in 1959 made it clear that Kaiser had no personal involvement in the Jeeps, nor were they exclusively available at his hotel.

Approximately 1,083 Jeep Galas were manufactured from 1959 through 1964, and probably the greatest number of these ended up in Hawai‘i. Their moment in history was brief, but memorable.

For decades, people took apart old cars and assembled elements into vehicles they could utilize for farm chores, or for driving on private land and not public roads. In the 1960s this same urge created what we soon came to know as the dune buggy, for fast and fun driving on sand dunes and other off-road activities. Unlike most vehicles, dune buggies were not made in factories but instead came from very small assembly companies, or were put together by private individuals using parts provided as kits. The first such vehicle was the Meyers Manx, invented in 1964 by a Californian who established the dune buggy template of a new, custom fiberglass body mounted onto a used Volkswagen Beetle chassis. Equipped in most cases with pretty much just a windshield and seats, the dune buggy exposed drivers and passengers to exhilarating wind speeds and a ride low to the ground that seemed faster than it was.

The rental companies in Hawai‘i that offered dune buggies in the 1960s and ‘70s probably never authorized customers to drive them off-road in the way the vehicles were originally invented to be used. What a renter got was a sporty-looking car to attract some attention while driving at regular speeds on the same public streets that everyone else drove on.

In the late 1950s, the British Motor Corporation attempted to create a specialized vehicle for military use, likely inspired by the success of the Jeep 20 years earlier. What they came up with was never suitable for military use, however, being too small, light and underpowered. So instead the company repositioned the Mini Moke, as it came to be called, for possible light commercial needs or, more reasonably, recreational use. Made in Britain from 1964 through 1968, the Mini Moke gained a following during the period when anything British was considered automatically cool and desirable. In the following decades it was assembled in Australia, Portugal, Malaysia, Africa and Italy in various iterations, followed by unlicensed versions in China beginning in 2013. The Mini Mokes first used as rental cars in Hawai‘i likely were from the earliest batch, made in England. Surprisingly, today you can again rent a Moke in Hawai‘i, only this time they’re electric and are again from Britain, like the originals were. This is a little machine that seemingly will not give up!

In retrospect, the lack of safety, protection or security in these old-time vehicles is hard to believe. A total absence of doors and windows, not to mention cloth tops with no metal strengthening, are frighteningly unsafe. No seatbelts, headrests or airbags would mean occupants would be thrown against any part of the interior at high speeds in a collision, or — even more likely — would be tossed completely out of the vehicle (which commonly happened). Even just walking away from one of these when it was parked would expose anything left behind to instant theft … and yes, even back then there were robbers waiting around tourist spots to grab unattended purses or wallets.

But when you’re on vacation … the real world can be ignored, or so we sometimes think.

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ASD history columnist DeSoto Brown takes us on a spin behind the wheels of the wacky, colorful rental cars that tourists loved in 1960s Hawai‘i. Open-air jeeps and dune buggies, these vehicles came from such exotic places as England, Italy, France and Toledo, Ohio. They all promised a fun time in the Islands.

Kooky Rental Cars!

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Tom Yamachika

Government & Politics

Viewpoints

The idea behind an empty homes tax is to impose an outrageously high cost on residential property that is unoccupied, to force owners to either live in the property or rent it out. The theory is that this would alleviate the housing shortage here in Honolulu.

We have written about such a tax on several occasions before, most recently 

The Honolulu City Council considered different versions of this tax in Bill 6 (2020), Bill 9 (2022), and Bill 46 (2024). On each occasion it failed to pass.

But that hasn’t stopped proponents of the idea. They have brought the matter to the Honolulu Charter Commission, the folks charged with proposing amendments to the Honolulu City Charter to be voted on at the November general election. The City Charter, of course, is the foundational document for city government, much like the Hawai‘i Constitution is for our state. These documents generally can’t be changed by the legislative bodies; any amendments need to go before the voters to be approved.

Recently, a Charter Commission committee shortlisted the empty homes tax proposal, known as P170.

P170 directs that the tax be imposed at no less than 2%, or $20 per $1,000 of taxable value, for any home that is “empty” for more than six months in a taxable year. This is many times the current residential property tax rate of $3.50 per $1,000 of taxable value.

One hang-up with the proposal is how the concept of “empty” is defined. There may be good reasons why a home is empty. Even the proponent of P170 has asked for exemptions to be written in to the charter provision:  “Exempt from this surcharge shall be properties that: have a valid homeowner exemption; are the principal residence of an O‘ahu resident more than 180 days a year; have owners on military deployment or absent due to ongoing medical care, or where the property is the subject of probate court proceedings.”  

Bill 46 (2024) had even more exemptions, around 15, including that the dwelling on the property is “not fit to live in,” the owner is making “active efforts” to sell or rent the property, or there is renovation work ongoing that “reasonably requires” the owner to live elsewhere.  And how does one even enforce the tax in the first place?  How does the city government verify that a home is “empty” without looking inside, which would be a violation of privacy laws?  And how is a person accused of having an empty home prove that the home was not, in fact, empty?

Also telling is the fact that the Department of Budget and Finance, which would have to enforce this tax somehow, complained in 2024 that Bill 46 “may not fully recognize the required staffing, resources and timetable to properly implement this type of program.”  In other words, they had doubts that they could enforce the new tax with the staff they had.

It’s also worth repeating that county governments only have the authority to impose real property tax. This power was given to the counties by the 1978 constitutional convention, which basically transferred the then-state real property tax over to the counties. An empty homes tax doesn’t look or feel like the real property tax as it existed in 1978, so there may be some question as to whether the county can enact the tax, whether by ordinance or charter amendment.

In any event, this issue isn’t going to go away soon.

We hope that wise and cool heads prevail in the end.

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Legislative attempts to pass the tax have failed, so proponents have a new idea — make an empty homes tax a charter amendment that people can vote on in the next election. The proposal is making headway, even as the draft amendment contains all the same conundrums as the failed bills.

Community Voices: Empty homes tax won’t go away

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Aloha Spirit

Nearly every weekend, Jay-R Kaawa boards a flight between Maui and Molokai. The trips are not usually for work; they are for family.

Kaawa, head of Summer and Extended Learning at Kamehameha Schools Maui, regularly travels home to Molokai to care for her father, who is living with dementia. At least once a month, she and her siblings help fly him to Maui or Oʻahu for appointments and support. Other times, she makes the trip to check on him, spend time with him and help manage his care. For Kaawa, transportation is not a convenience. “It is a necessity. We need reliable air transportation. Bottom line,” she said.

Her story is one shared by families across Maui Nui who routinely travel between Molokai, Lānaʻi, Maui and Oʻahu for health care, work and time with loved ones. That reality is why many residents are paying close attention to Lānaʻi Air’s plans to expand service to Molokai.

The airline, which began as a charter service connecting Honolulu and Lānaʻi, has evolved over the past several years. Originally created to transport visitors to Lānaʻi, the company expanded public ticket sales in 2024 and now markets itself as another option for island residents. Earlier this year, Lānaʻi Air announced plans to begin service to Molokai, adding a second commercial air carrier to an island that has spent years with limited transportation options.

The expansion marks the latest step in the company’s growth. The airline intends to operate four daily roundtrip flights between Molokai and Honolulu using their 19-seat Cessna SkyCourier aircraft. They have been promoting the aircraft’s larger cabin and accessibility features while emphasizing its goal of improving transportation options for residents traveling for healthcare, education, work and family obligations.

Kaawa flies home nearly every weekend and estimates she spends at least $220 on airfare each trip. Sometimes, she said, a one-way ticket can cost more than $200. “Just from an economic standpoint, having a competitor will hopefully bring down fares,” she said. While she considers herself fortunate to be able to afford those trips, she worries about residents who cannot.

“If one plane is out of commission, the whole schedule is messed up,” she said. Despite those challenges, Molokai residents continue to find ways to get where they need to go.

“We’re resourceful in that way, we always find ways to make things work,” Kaawa said. Some residents catch rides on boats operated by friends or family members. Others coordinate travel with fishermen making trips between islands. For many, finding transportation is simply part of daily life. “We’re going to make do with what we have, but that doesn’t mean it’s right,” she said.

Accessibility is another concern. Because of his dementia, Kaawa’s father often struggles boarding smaller commuter aircraft. While he remains physically capable, navigating the tight spaces of a small plane can be difficult. “I literally have to hold his head down and crawl him into the plane,” she said.

At least once a month, Kaawa and her siblings fly their father to Maui or Oʻahu so he can spend time with family and receive additional support. While neighbors and family friends often help transport him when needed, she worries about the burden placed on others.

“I would feel much better knowing it’s a plane that doesn’t seem so cramped,” she said. For families caring for kūpuna and loved ones with medical conditions, the size of the aircraft matters. Many residents travel with walkers, wheelchairs, oxygen equipment or other medical devices. Others simply find boarding small commuter planes difficult. Kaawa believes a larger aircraft could make a meaningful difference for those families.

Maui lifeguard Kaipo Garcia has seen firsthand how important reliable transportation can be during some of life’s most difficult moments. Inter-island travel is part of his family’s routine. His sister lives on Lānaʻi and regularly travels because her daughter is undergoing cancer treatment.

“She flies every week because my niece has cancer,” Garcia said. Like many families living on smaller islands, they rely on flights to access specialized healthcare services unavailable at home.

Garcia has also heard stories from residents whose travel plans were disrupted by delays and cancellations. “They were missing their appointments,” he said. “They’d make their doctor appointments based on the [flight’s] arrival time and then delays would happen.”

The importance of reliable transportation became personal earlier this year when Garcia’s father passed away on Lānaʻi.

Living on Maui, he immediately searched for a flight home. His father died shortly before 8:00 p.m. Garcia was able to book a last-minute flight and arrive in time to be with his family. “I made reservations last minute,” he said. “At least I got there.” The flight allowed him to help carry his father from his bed to the hearse.

For Garcia, that experience reinforced something many Molokai and Lānaʻi families already understand. Transportation is about much more than getting from one island to another. It is about being present when family needs you most.

Community members have also pointed to another reason they are optimistic about Lānaʻi Air’s expansion: familiar faces. During community outreach events, residents met airline employees who previously worked for Island Air, a carrier that served neighbor island communities for decades.

Many Molokai residents already knew them. That familiarity, Kaawa said, helped build trust. “It’s local folks that we know and have seen frequently while traveling,” she said.

Some residents also see the airline’s hiring of former Island Air employees as a sign that local knowledge and experience remain part of the company’s approach. While questions remain about how the expansion will ultimately affect the community, many residents say they are hopeful.

No airline is immune from weather disruptions, maintenance issues or operational challenges. But for residents accustomed to limited options, another carrier represents something many have wanted for years: a choice.

“We’re grateful for what we have,” Kaawa said. “But we’re ready for another option.”

This article is reprinted with permission from 

OHA's Ka Wai Ola newspaper: "Molokaʻi is Ready For Another Option" by 

, in its July 2026 issue, Vol. 43 No. 7. Read more at 

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<title>Community Voices: Molokai is ready for another option</title>

Lānaʻi Air will begin flying between Oʻahu and Molokai in September.

Community Voices: Molokai is ready for another option

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Kelli Shiroma Braiotta

Food & Dining

National Ice Cream Day is this Sunday, July 19 — and 

From 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday only, customers can enjoy $2 single scoops (limit two) and $1 ice cream flight cones (flight of six cones for $6) at the Hawai

One flight cone usually costs $3, so customers are getting one third of the normal cost, according to business owner Trang Hammond.

Current featured flavors include cookies and cream, Biscoff, strawberry cream, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, caramel mac nut, tiramisu, lilikoʻi cream and more.

The biz will also make exclusive flavors just for that day. Specialty flavors include li hing mango, strawberry shortcake crumbles, lemon bar, red velvet cake, and Road to Hana, which is made with macadamia nuts instead of almonds.

Several of the specialty flavors are inspired by summer, according to Hammond.

“Strawberry shortcake crumbles is like a strawberry shortcake popsicle, but deconstructed into ice cream,” she says. “It tastes like a strawberry popsicle that you get at the ice cream truck. For our Road to Hana (flavor), there’s macadamia nuts, chocolate swirls and chocolate chips. We bring our lemon bar and red velvet cake — which are really popular — out on special occasions.

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There will also be “surprise” specialty flavors made by business owner Ryan Hammond. Vegan-friendly flavors like oatmilk Biscoff and oatmilk pandan will also be available.

“Ryan still has a day to make ice cream before that day (National Ice Cream Day); he always surprises us,” Hammond says.

Customers will get the chance to participate in a raffle. One winner will get ice cream for a year; another winner will get to work with Hammond to create an ice cream flavor named after them.

“It’s just fun to get everybody here and enjoy a day out,” Hammond says.

7192 Kalanianaʻole Hwy. Ste. D103, Honolulu

National Ice Cream Day deals will be from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on July 19 

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The Hawaiʻi Kai biz is offering limited-time specials for National Ice Cream Day this Sunday, July 19. Customers can enjoy $2 ice cream scoops, $1 flight cones and specialty flavors.

$1 ice cream flight cones at Hammond’s Gourmet Ice Cream

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Christian Shimabuku

Sports

 concluded with rounds 5-20 on Sunday, with five players with Hawai‘i ties getting selected. 

Up first was Arizona State senior and Saint Louis alumnus Nu‘u Contrades, who was taken in the sixth round with the 186th overall pick by the San Diego Padres. 

A pair of Baldwin alums were taken a round apart from each other in University of Hawai‘i senior standout Ben Zeigler-Namoa, who was taken in the 10th round by the Atlanta Braves. Arkansas junior Kuhio Aloy followed in the 11th round when he was selected by the New York Mets with the 330th overall selection.

Additionally, Seattle University pitcher and Maui High School alumnus Luke Alwood was taken in the 10th round by the Chicago Cubs with the 307th overall selection.

Rounding out the Island ties was former University of Hawai‘i outfielder Jack Salmon, who transferred to UNLV prior to the 2026 season and was selected by the Los Angeles Angels in the 19th round. 

Zeigler-Namoa woke up at 4 a.m. to keep track of the draft online, then received a call from his agent telling him the Braves were preparing to take him in between rounds 8-10. 

"It was obviously shock," Zeigler-Namoa told Aloha State Daily of his reaction. "Didn't expect that to happen. I was just grateful to have my mom right next to me."

Zeigler-Namoa came to UH as a pro prospect out of Yavapai College in Arizona. He remained on the radar of scouts in each of his four years as a Rainbow Warrior. Though getting selected as a fifth-year senior was a relief, he also acknowledged he was picked as a senior sign, meaning he'll earn significantly less than the 

With the Braves organization, Zeigler-Namoa says he was told he'd be playing a lot of first base. At Hawai‘i, he played all three outfield positions in addition to first base. He even pitched during his first season with UH in 2023. 

 at the Big West Conference tournament, Zeigler-Namoa says he was able to stay sharp by working the program's keiki camps during the summer. 

"The kids have been keeping me in shape, making me run around and yell and do things like I'm playing baseball. And then I've been training on my own after, which has been really nice, and I've had the honor of having the coaching staff around to help me out, too," Zeigler-Namoa said. "It's been great."

One of the first calls Zeigler-Namoa made after getting drafted was to former UH teammate Austin Machado, who signed with Atlanta as an undrafted free agent following the 2024 season as a junior. Machado is currently with the 

Augusta GreenJackets, the Single-A affiliate of the Braves.

In the days ahead, Zeigler-Namoa is expected to sign, then receive his minor league assignment. Starting his journey in pro ball has been a long time coming, but the wait is finally over. 

"I'm grateful for everyone I've met throughout the journey so far, and I hope to continue to represent Hawai‘i in the best way possible," he said.

Additionally, UH pitcher John Alikre II signed with the Cubs as an undrafted free agent on Sunday. On Monday morning, former Hawai‘i ace pitcher 

 signed a free agent deal with the Toronto Blue Jays. 

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<title>Five players with Hawai‘i ties selected in final day of 2026 MLB Draft</title>

The 2026 MLB Draft concluded with three selections with Island ties on Sunday.

Five players with Hawai‘i ties selected in final day of 2026 MLB Draft

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Crime & Courts

On a June afternoon in Liliha, police found a man walking the centerline of North Kuakini Street with blood soaking his white shirt. Police asked the man his name. “I’m Jesus Israel Black I!” he told the officers, according to court documents. “I’m a pedophile. It’s a conspiracy. I’m being framed.” He was not Jesus Israel Black the First. He was Joshua, the son.

An hour later, Joshua’s mother found Jesus, 70, lying bloodied on the floor of their Nalanui Street apartment. He was taken to a hospital and died there that night. The son had taken his father’s name and his father’s imagined guilt in the same breath.

It was the third case of its kind on Oʻahu in the past year. Last June, London Opendack was charged with attacking his mother and father with a hammer in their Waikīkī apartment. Court records show he had 

 to stand trial in earlier cases, and twice released. In December, Micah Auna was charged with murder. Police had found his mother’s body at the foot of the stairs in her Hawaiʻi Kai home.

Two of the three men reached for the same story. Auna 

 his mother had molested him and his cousin, so he “pushed” her. Black wore his father’s name and confessed his father’s imagined crime in one sentence. And on Hawaiʻi Island in May, Jacob Baker was charged with killing three elderly men — one of whom had let him harvest coconuts from his land. At one scene, police found “Pedofilio” written on a piece of scrap wood.

Opendack is the exception. His social media posts, still online, show a mind fixated not on predators but on mathematical patterns — number theory as private revelation. The fixation was not new. In a 2022 petition for a restraining order, an ex-girlfriend described finding a note in her driveway that looked like a math proof. On closer inspection it was math symbols arranged into nonsense. His erratic speech, she wrote, pointed to a severe psychological disorder.

 her son had schizophrenia. He had stopped taking his medication earlier in the year and used medical cannabis instead.

A disturbed mind grabs whatever story its culture keeps nearest at hand. A generation ago, the paranoid man heard the CIA in his fillings. Today’s troubled young man, more often than not, finds a predator in his own house.

The fear is not irrational in itself — child predation is real, and our alarm about it is warranted. That is exactly why it has become the costume worn by delusion. Court records note that Jesus Black had ten prior convictions, and none of them were for anything like what his son alleged.

Scripture treats honor of parents as more than good manners. It is the first commandment, Paul observes, that carries a promise: honor your father and mother, that your days may be long in the land. The promise is civic, not merely personal. A society in which honor flows toward age is a society where the old die in their beds. Leviticus extends the same fabric past the household: rise before the gray head, honor the face of an old man. Baker’s alleged victims were not his kin. They were men old enough to be his father, living quietly in Puna.

The Mosaic penalty for striking a parent was death. That severity measures the weight of the offense against the created order. It does not tell a judge what to do with these particular men. The same tradition that gave us Exodus spent centuries separating the gravity of an act from the capacity of the actor.

One of these men was twice found unfit for trial, and twice released. Years later, he allegedly took a hammer to his parents. That raises a policy question for the state.

But the deeper repair happens where the state cannot reach: fathers present in homes, and congregations that do not send their disturbed young men out to the sidewalk. It depends on families that treat the commandment as livable rather than quaint.

None of us will do what these men stand accused of. But the commandment was not written for monsters. It was written for ordinary homes. The commandment covers the way we approach the father who repeats himself, the teacher talked over in class, the kūpuna left to manage alone. Honor frays at the small points long before it tears at the large ones. The extreme cases shock us because some of the old fabric still holds.

We can pray that God’s will be done and that young men would come to know this commandment. We still must do the part of the work assigned to us.

The commandment comes with a promise. Long days in the land are offered to us, if we obey.

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<title>Hawaiʻi attacks on parents: What the Liliha, Hawaiʻi Kai and Waikīkī cases share</title>

A blood-soaked man stood in the middle of a Liliha street and answered police with his father’s name. ASD opinion columnist Sterling Higa on three attacks on parents in a single year — and the commandment written for ordinary homes.

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