I volunteered to deploy to Iraq. I was one of the few soldiers who were not on the mandatory deployment roster - close to 3,000 Hawaii soldiers were.

I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader.

Every soldier knows this simple fact: If you don't know your enemy, you will not be able to defeat him.

In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.

Hawaii is a special place because we have a very diverse population there, who are very respectful and tolerant of those who have differing opinions and different views.

I've seen firsthand the high human cost of war.

A military mindset is objectively analyzing a planned course of action and anticipating the likely consequences before you take that action.

These days, it's often women in uniform - moms, wives, even grandmothers - who deploy and leave their families behind.

As a soldier, I've served with the most brave people in an institution that's built on integrity, honor, and duty.

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

Someone has said that death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life.

When life gets rough, don't panic! Just let it be! Life is leading you to still waters!

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

If you can build it, you can unbuild it

Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.

When things have a meaning for us, we mean (intend, propose) what we do: when they do not, we act blindly, unconsciously, unintelligently.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

The only time a juggler / Appeals to me / Is when I see him / Miss the ball.

Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.

Success leaves clues, Proximity is power. Love your family, CHOOSE your peers.