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News Date | Wednesday, March 31, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | Shinseki inspires generation
The Honolulu Star-Bulletin
His leadership is "an inspiration for a whole generation of leaders in the Army," said the Hawaii's 25th Infantry Division commander, Maj. Gen. Eric Olson, at dedication ceremonies yesterday for the Shinseki Gallery at the U.S. Army Museum in Hawaii. As Olson prepared to leave today to head a 13,000-member multinational coalition force in Afghanistan, including 5,000 troops from Schofield Barracks, he noted: "I can't help but think this is a great way to go off to Afghanistan, with this kind of inspiration in my mind. It puts us in the right mind frame."
Eric Shinseki, twice wounded in the Vietnam War, the first Japanese American to become a four-star general and serve as chief of a military service, retired last summer after 38 years of service.
Shinseki's achievements are just "a validation that America no longer considers that being an Asian is a handicap," Lt. Gen. Allen Ono, who was the highest-ranking Japanese American until Shinseki's promotion to a four-star general, said. |
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