U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye of Hawai'i, a highly decorated World War II combat veteran who used his status as one of the longest-serving and most powerful Democrats in Washington to send billions of dollars to his home islands, died on Monday, Dec. 17, at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda. He was 88. Peter Boyland, a spokesman for the senator, said the cause was respiratory complications.
