Inouye Memorialized as a 'Giant' and 'Shining Star'

Inouye Memorialized as a 'Giant' and 'Shining Star'

<h1>Inouye Memorialized as a 'Giant' and 'Shining Star'</h1><img src="http://www.voanews.com/App_Themes/VOA_en-US/img/colorLogo.gif"/>The late Hawaiian U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye was remembered Sunday as a giant and a shining star of the so-called greatest (World War II) generation.<br /> <br /> Inouye was memorialized at a military service in his native Honolulu. President Barack Obama and about 20 members of Congress attended the service. The late senator was honored with a 19-gun salute and a military jet flyover.<br /> <br /> Thousands of people filed past his casket as it lay in the state capitol Saturday. Inouye will be buried in a private ceremony.<br /> <br /> Inouye was the highest-ranking U.S. senator when he died last week at 88. He was a war hero, losing an arm fighting the Nazis in World War II, but faced discrimination at home because of his Japanese ancestry.<br /> <br /> He was elected to Congress as a Democrat when Hawaii became a state in 1959 and became a senator three years later.<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.voanews.com/content/inouye-memorialized-as-a-giant-and-shining-star/1570978.html"/><meta name="syndication-source" content="http://www.voanews.com/content/inouye-memorialized-as-a-giant-and-shining-star/1570978.html"/><img src="http://livetracker.voanews.eu/counter.lt?PageType=256&RecordId=1570978&SiteId=415&r=1906889295&it=0&pd=20121224000837&url=ArticleID1570978" alt="" style="border:none;" height="1" width="1">

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