Post by lary on May 11, 2009 0:21:39 GMT -5
Aloha All,
First of all, THANX MUCH A Dapitan for taking the initiative to post on this Message Board. I have been trying to get members to post informative items, since the inception of this website. Great job.
Just to add a little more information for all of you, I add the below:
<Within a couple hours from when Milton Andrade was discovered unresponsive, Bobby Schmidt called me from HNL, relating the information, passed on to him by Butch Robinson. Bobby mentioned that Milton was putting in his papers for retirement this year. Also, from what Schmidt heard of Andrade's passing, both he and Steven Burke will now be checking themselves out for "sleep apnea". I think a bunch of the rest of us, probably are faced with that same concern, and gotta get ourselves checked out too. Can never be...overly cautious.
<I was not able to attend Charlie Wakita's funeral service, because I was in San Francisco. (Visited his wife Momi the evening before I flew out though.) However, Charlie Langer wrote saying that a bunch of them attended Wakita's service. They wore their police polo shirts in a sign of "togetherness", a presence that made the family proud.
My friend Derrick Valentino related after the funeral, there was a caravan of about 200 of them (mostly motorcycle riders) that drove cross island, to scatter his ashes up here on the Big Island.
Wakita was with HPD from 1964 to 1965, then returned to the Big Island to close out his career as a captain.
BROTHERS & SISTER, let's stay "close", like we were before, in the good 'ole days. We are "leaving" one at a time. USE THIS MESSAGE BOARD please, to post anything "newsworthy", that has to do with US...the men and women of the blue. Don't be hesitant to post anything, that is "for the good"...of all of us. Thank You.
Aloha Ke Akua, lary.
First of all, THANX MUCH A Dapitan for taking the initiative to post on this Message Board. I have been trying to get members to post informative items, since the inception of this website. Great job.
Just to add a little more information for all of you, I add the below:
<Within a couple hours from when Milton Andrade was discovered unresponsive, Bobby Schmidt called me from HNL, relating the information, passed on to him by Butch Robinson. Bobby mentioned that Milton was putting in his papers for retirement this year. Also, from what Schmidt heard of Andrade's passing, both he and Steven Burke will now be checking themselves out for "sleep apnea". I think a bunch of the rest of us, probably are faced with that same concern, and gotta get ourselves checked out too. Can never be...overly cautious.
<I was not able to attend Charlie Wakita's funeral service, because I was in San Francisco. (Visited his wife Momi the evening before I flew out though.) However, Charlie Langer wrote saying that a bunch of them attended Wakita's service. They wore their police polo shirts in a sign of "togetherness", a presence that made the family proud.
My friend Derrick Valentino related after the funeral, there was a caravan of about 200 of them (mostly motorcycle riders) that drove cross island, to scatter his ashes up here on the Big Island.
Wakita was with HPD from 1964 to 1965, then returned to the Big Island to close out his career as a captain.
BROTHERS & SISTER, let's stay "close", like we were before, in the good 'ole days. We are "leaving" one at a time. USE THIS MESSAGE BOARD please, to post anything "newsworthy", that has to do with US...the men and women of the blue. Don't be hesitant to post anything, that is "for the good"...of all of us. Thank You.
Aloha Ke Akua, lary.