08-04-2024, 07:04 PM
(08-04-2024, 05:15 PM)MyManao Wrote: It’s been a long time, and most of my take of what Harry thought or not is taken from the countless hours we spent together at the CD command post (first at Harry K Brown park, and later up by the papaya farm) over the length of the crisis. Harry, although he didn’t have to, spent most nights there, and a lot of his buddies would drop by. And oh my how local folks measure the passage of time more by its grounding in who went to what school, and who got hitched to who, and omg did you hear about..? So it’s more a matter of the vibe.. the prevailing opinions.. than policy that left a lasting impression..
I believe Harry felt the moving of the church was a bit of a showcase rather than deep grassroots movement. And while great in and of itself he was saddened that the same energy wasn’t being given to the individuals losing everything. If memory serves, I believe there were seven other homes that were jacked up and carted away. And those were individual privately funded efforts. Whereas the church was something entirely different. Although, as you see in the pictures of the churched being hauled down Government Rd, Harry wasn’t shy about taking the role offered and there he was leading the procession as it winded its way down the road. Which fits with someone not knowing what was happening and assuming they can interpret history through a picture..
This is one of the biggest pieces of “historical revisionism” as one could be! I’m surprised that you’re not on the republican presidential candidate’s ticket.
At any event, your beliefs and your memories are really not even close to what the reality of the situation at the time was with respect to Harry Kim and the moving of the church.
As one of several dozens of volunteers along with my husband, helping in numerous ways, including even some of us taking Harry’s clothes home and washing them and returning them to Harry in the afternoon while also shuffling the foods being prepared in these volunteers homes was what really went on. And the church was moved by privately funded efforts. The County assisted EVERYONE in helping them move their possessions out along with the County helping those who did move their homes as well as the church. Harry had one rule: “If I say evacuate, you go. Now.” Period.
And by no means during the devastating lava flows that took out Kalapana, was Harry Kim a person who would use the media to get a good “photo op.” The locals that lived in Kalapana would have skinned him alive if he did.
I do recall several times hearing about this one drunken and passed out photographer a few times. Does the nickname “VodkaHaole” ring a bell?
At any event, keep posting your bullshit. Maybe some really stupid people may still believe you!