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Isle lawyer gets
Abu Ghraib case

Hawaii Army Reserve Capt. Patsy Takemura, who was placed on active duty two years ago, is the lead defense attorney for Spc. Sabrina Harman, an Army prison guard accused of humiliating Iraqis held at Abu Ghraib. Harman could get up to 6 1/2 years in prison if convicted of conspiracy, maltreating detainees and dereliction of duty. An attorney with the public defender's office for nearly 12 years, Takemura, 34, said she joined the Army Reserve in February 2001 because she wanted to serve her country.

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The Army has opened eligibility for its new Combat Action Badge to soldiers of all job skills.

The new badge now may be awarded to any soldier, branch and military occupational specialty immaterial, performing assigned duties in an area where hostile fire pay or imminent danger pay is authorized, who is personally present and actively engaging or being engaged by the enemy, and performing satisfactorily.

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Retired Adm. Thomas Fargo, former Pacific Command chief, has been named vice chairman of the national Pearl Harbor Memorial Fund board of directors and will serve as chairman of the organization's newly established Hawaii Advisory Council.

The Pearl Harbor Memorial Fund was established by the Arizona Memorial Museum Association in 2003 at the request the National Park Service to raise $34 million to build a new Pearl Harbor Memorial Museum and Visitor Center at Pearl Harbor. Fargo retired from the Navy March 1 after serving as commander of the U.S. Pacific Command for three years.

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The documentary film -- "A Most Unlikely Hero" -- chronicling Hawaii-born Bruce Yamashita's fight against the Marine Corps, which washed him out of officer candidate school -- will be shown tomorrow at 7 p.m. at Unity Church of Hawaii at 3608 Diamond Head Circle. Director Steve Okino will participate in a discussion of the film after the screening, part of National Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Admission is $5 for adults, and $10 for families. For more information, call 735-4436. The one-hour film documents Yamashita's five year- battle against racial and ethnic discrimination in the Marine Corps.

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The U.S. Army Museum at Fort DeRussy this week will host two events starting with the induction of Toshio Aoyagi, a Korean War veteran, and Dennis Fujii, a Vietnam War gunship door gunner, into its Gallery of Heroes at 2:30 p.m. Friday. The two soldiers will join the 41 recipients of the nation's second highest award for valor -- the Distinguish Service Cross and the Navy Cross -- whose portrait already hang on the museum's second floor exhibit area. On Saturday, the museum will host a "living history day" from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The exhibit is part of Armed Forces Day and will feature displays of military memorabilia, re-enactors in uniforms and military artifacts.

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Twenty-five members of the Kaneohe Bay's 3rd Radio Battalion left the islands Friday to prepare the way for the rest of the battalion to join them in June in Iraq. This will be the unit's third deployment to Iraq. It is expected to gone for nine months.