A modern-day warrior is laid to rest
Photos by Richard Ambo
Advertiser Staff Photographer
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With the blowing of the conch shell by Likeke Bell, left, and accompanied by a guard of Na Koa, Hawaiian warriors, the hearse bearing the casket of 1st Lt. Nainoa K. Hoe arrives at the Hawai'i State Veterans Cemetary.
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La'akea Suganuma, right, of the lua practitioner group Pa Ku'iholo; Tommy Kaulukukui Jr., left; and Hawai'i Army National Guard Pfc. Nakoa Hoe, walk up the hill at the Hawai'i State Veteran's Cemetary ahead of the hearse bearing the casket of Nakoa's brother, 1st Lt. Nainoa Hoe, who was killed in Iraq.
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Hawaiian warriors and an Army honor guard escorted the casket of 1st Lt. Nainoa Hoe as it arrived for burial yesterday at the Hawai'i State Veterans Cemetery in Kane'ohe. Hoe, 27, a Kamehameha Schools graduate from Maunawili, was an infantry platoon leader with the 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment out of Fort Lewis, Wash., when he was killed Jan. 22 by a sniper in Mosul, Iraq.
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| Surrounded by a guard of Hawaiian Warriors, Tommy Kaulukukui Jr., middle; and Hawai'i Army National Guard Pfc. Nakoa Hoe, middle right, salute the casket of Nakoa's brother 1st Lt. Nainoa Hoe as it is unloaded at the Hawai'i State Veteran's Cemetary. |
