Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 22, Number 5, 1 May 2005 — Hawaiian DNA [ARTICLE]

Hawaiian DNA

This is in regards to the letter in March by Onolono Sheerin of Puna. Your caustic response to my plain language letter in turn deserves a response. In 200 words or less, I did the best that I could. I did not choose the language of gay liberation. They were my own words and thoughts. Hardcore American racists classify me as a "mud person." Therefore, I am excluded as a racist. I was a U.S. Army paratrooper in the Vietnam War, and not a German army paratrooper in World War II. I am not related to Adolph Hitler by DNA. On Sept. 11, 2001, I was a New York law enforcement officer, emergency medical technician and rescue responder. My fellow rescuers and I were under the World Trade Center towers when both fell. After the attacks, I collected in five-gallon buckets many body parts, whieh had to be identified by DNA laboratories. People are still being identified today. There is a great need for DNA

testing in the 21st century, and DNA science has eome a long way. DNA science ean greatly help the people of Hawaiian ancestry and the people of the Kingdom of Hawai'i. Please stand and be counted. The dark times are over. Keoni R. May Scarsdale, New York