Ken Hayashida

Ret.Board-cert'd Pediatrician
USC School of Medicine MD alum
USC BS Biological Sciences with Honors, Chemistry Minor alum

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯 @japan_nobunaga]

In 1944, thousands of Japanese on Saipan hid in caves, sure the Americans would torture them if they came out. Many families chose the cliffs instead.

An 18-year-old American Marine from East Los Angeles walked up to those caves at night, alone, and called to them in Japanese.

His name was Guy Gabaldon. He was a Mexican American kid who had grown up partly in the home of a Japanese American family, the Nakanos. That is where he picked up his Japanese. When the war came, the Nakanos were sent to internment camps. Their twin sons, Lane and Lyle, joined the U.S. Army anyway and served in the 442nd.

Fifty years later, he still said it plainly: "These were Americans."

On Saipan, Gabaldon was a scout with the 2nd Marine Regiment. Right after landing, he slipped off on his own and came back with prisoners. His commanding officer, Capt. John Schwabe, threatened him with a court-martial for leaving his post.

The next night, he came back with about fifty.

After that, they let him go out alone.

He crawled to the cave mouths in the dark and promised the people inside water, medical care, and that nobody would hurt them. Night after night, ten or twenty at a time, they followed him out.

On July 8, by his own account, about 800 came out in a single day. Schwabe remembered that day too. It was the day they tagged him the Pied Piper of Saipan.

Not everyone listened. At the cliffs, he begged a mother not to kill her child. He watched her throw the baby and jump. He was still talking about it fifty years later.

His Navy Cross citation says that on Saipan and Tinian he brought in "well over one thousand enemy civilians and troops."

Schwabe recommended him for the Medal of Honor. He received the Silver Star. Sixteen years later, after Hollywood made a movie about him, the Navy upgraded it to the Navy Cross.

He died in 2006 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

I am Japanese. Those caves were full of my people, frightened, starving, and certain that the Americans were monsters.

An American teenager walked toward them in the dark and offered them water.

On this Veterans Day, Japan should know his name.

[Ken Hayashida @TrekDocFan]

@ko_iti30 The Star Trek original films made huge global sales. They were successful world wide but could have done better in the Japanese market. I have never seen explanations for why the films were not more popular in Japan.

[Ken Hayashida @TrekDocFan]

@SenAlexPadilla @SenAdamSchiff @RepJuanVargas @RepSaraJacobs @RepMikeLevin @RepScottPeters Senator!
You need to investigate the ICE conduct at Rady Childrens Hospital in Early 2025 which allegedly traumatized the ER medical staff, separated sick kids from parents, and interfered with ER operations

[Ken Hayashida @TrekDocFan]

Wow!

[Cosmos Archive @cosmosarcive]

Judith Love Cohen.

In 1969, as a lead engineer on Apollo 13’s Abort Guidance System, she brought malfunctioning blueprints to the hospital, solved the fix from her labor bed, called NASA, and gave birth to future actor Jack Black.

Months later, when an explosion crippled Apollo 13 in deep space, her exact backup system brought all three astronauts safely home.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

We keep hearing again that Russia supposedly needs security guarantees. Even though no one has attacked Russia for many decades. Since the Second World War, Moscow has not gone through even one decade without starting a war or using military force against another country.

So when the Russians now talk about a security architecture for themselves, or about security guarantees for Russia – they are hardly talking about real security. And peace.

What they really want – is to freely interfere in the affairs of other countries, and to use force whenever they want, and to make sure that no one can support liberty inside Russia because Putin wants to keep his personal power forever and pass on his imperialist and, in many ways, simply fascist views to the next generations.

From a speech at the Danish Folketing. (3/3)

[News Everyday @24newseveryday]

【速報】 高市政権、日本は緊急時に核兵器持ち込みOKとする方針に、安保3文書改定で明記検討
https://t.co/lyydkEqPp5

[Senator Alex Padilla @SenAlexPadilla]

REMINDER: Every detention center is a real estate deal, contractor deal, and operating deal for private companies. These companies are making money off of taxpayer dollars left and right.

When ICE detains children, mothers, and fathers, private companies make BILLIONS all the while Americans struggle to afford groceries, electric bills, and health care.

[NewsNews.Today @newsnews_today]

反町「覚醒したって言われることについて」

小泉「元々寝てないよw」

wwwwwww

[NASA History Office @NASAhistory]

Next week, for the first time in human history, a human-made object will reach a distance of one light-day from Earth.

We're inviting the world to celebrate Voyager 1's major milestone with us. https://t.co/0uAIREiUwZ

[Ken Hayashida @TrekDocFan]

@AnthemBCBS @pgipe Your plan needs to post the name of the company denying coverage. Physicians need to verify that RXs for epi-pens are not being denied by a PBM at the pharmacy!

[Ken Hayashida @TrekDocFan]

@RepJuanVargas You need to investigate the ICE behavior at Rady Childrens Hospital ER in Feb 25. Allegedly separating sick kids from parents and threatening nurses and medical staff. The investigation is 18 months overdue

[Ken Hayashida @TrekDocFan]

@SenAdamSchiff Please investigate ICE tactica at hospital ERs including allegations of ICE intruding, interfering, and separating sick children from guardians/parents at Rady Childrens Hospital San Diego in Feb 25.
Medical staff and ER were traumatized by the attack on the hospital

[Dr. Gripesalot @pgipe]

Insurance @AnthemBCBS denied EpiPen for my 13 month old after allergist visit and testing with documented egg allergy. Tell me again why I should spend 24-36K a year to get nothing? Why not go with non-traditional model? It’s all a gamble irregardless of the regulations.

[Ken Hayashida @TrekDocFan]

@dac35741287 @MikeLevin If you look in ProPublica for the IRS Form 990, many of these healthcare sector nonprofits have been sending millions to billions of US$ per month out of the country. Check Schedule F

[Ken Hayashida @TrekDocFan]

@sirmammo67

[Ken Hayashida @TrekDocFan]

Damn right Mario!

[#RapidReplay @RapidReplays]

Mario postgame interview

[Ken Hayashida @TrekDocFan]

@dp_1389 @sabooky15 @dpshow If you can’t see the player standing in the end zone with the ball in both hands, you should just scroll on

[Ken Hayashida @TrekDocFan]

@ARealRocketMan Sounds like a goal but at 50% I sure hope they don’t damage the launch facilities.

[Ken Hayashida @TrekDocFan]

@Jrobyrne @cooperfitch3 Too much cultural differences between PAC and OK and UTx.

[Ken Hayashida @TrekDocFan]

@architelligent @cooperfitch3 Good time line discussion.
Need to add BCS, CFP eras, and now 24 team post season play.

[Ken Hayashida @TrekDocFan]

@GoCougsWSU_2022 @cooperfitch3 There was no way that USC and UCLA would accept that number. B1G and SEC get too much more.