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The Promise I Made is a memoir of service, sovereignty, and a son keeping his word — from a Kaʻū sugar plantation town to the cockpit of a Navy jet, and the long road home.
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📅 Book Launch: October 6, 2026

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    A Hawaiian Story

    Ten generations of my family have lived in Kaʻū, on Hawaiʻi Island. This memoir is a Native Hawaiian son's reckoning with what was taken — and what we are building back.

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    28 Years in Uniform

    From boot camp in San Diego at seventeen, to flying Navy jets, to Baghdad, to commanding the Navy's largest R&D center on the West Coast. A career that took me everywhere but home.

    The Promise

    A dialysis clinic in Kaʻū, in memory of my father. Every dollar of profit from this book goes there. That is the promise.