Hawaii: A Note To The D.E.A. S.O.D., F.B.I., C.I.A., and N.C.I.S.

1. Typhoid vaccination at Makalapa Medical Clinic in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: The command required a two-part typhoid vaccination  injection, but after the first shot, I could barely move for 48 hours. I had a high fever, and felt like I actually had typhoid symptoms.

2. At Tripler Army Medical Center, two physicians treated me for bleeding/spotting during the third month of my pregnancy. The young, Caucasian, male M.D. performed an ultrasound and informed me that my son had no heart beat. He ordered blood tests with his supervisor, an African-American, female physician.

Then, I was informed that I would need a D & C because both physicians were certain that my son was growing without a heart beat, based on the ultrasound and blood tests. At my next TAMC appointment, an older, Caucasian, male OB/GYN, a Captain, did another ultrasound, after my younger, Caucasian, male physician was unable to find a heartbeat again. The Captain informed the younger doctor that he was looking at my bladder on the ultrasound, not my son. Also, the Captain said that my son's heart beat was actually quite strong.

3. During the first and second trimesters of my pregnancy, I got repeatedly jostled and groped by the civilian, local (Hawaiian, Japanese and Samoan) men on the public bus that stopped at my command, in front of Makalapa Medical Clinic. The civilian, Hawaiian, young man who worked at the N6 building when my son four months old was abusive towards me in while I was in uniform, ranting about the military being a bunch of lazy service members.

There had been a lot of conflicts between the civilians and military service members previous to that incident. I had already been warned by the U.S. General's daughter, at work, to be wary about the local gangs. I often saw them at the local Aiea mall, and beaches. They sometimes had gangster tattoos, one with severely raised/swollen flesh, Hawaiian calligraphy font (1 inch high, spanning their upper back in a rainbow arch, over 7 inches long). Some (groups of four, twenties-aged, large, Hawaiian men) would gather in groups at the North Shore, on Sunset/Pipeline beach to harass us (Nathan H. and I). That was a frequent occurrence.