Ka Ho'i

(rain falling) (birds chirping) (dramatic music) (rhythmic drumming) (chanting in foreign language) (distant explosions) (heavy breathing) - Let's go let's go!

Cover me!

Cover me!

Cover me, go go go!

(guns firing) Mikey move your ass!

Go go go!

Let's go let's go, move move!

(muffled explosions) (loud ringing) (phone rings) - [Automated Voice] Hello.

No one is available to take your call.

Please leave a message after the tone.

(answering machine beeps) - [Kameona] Hey Pop.

Just calling to remind you I'm gonna swing by later this afternoon to help you with some of the yard and stuff.

Let me know if you need me to grab anything before I come over too.

Oh, and mom wanted me to make sure you knew to be home... What?

Oh, okay okay.

Oh yeah, she also said that Saturday don't forget about your doctor's appointment too.

I was supposed to come get you, but something else came up, so, sorry.

I think mom's gonna call the handy van to schedule a pickup or something, but shoot.

Yeah.

Okay, gotta go, Pop.

I'll see you later, okay?

Love you.

Bye.

(answering machine beeps) (dramatic music) (store intercom music) - Hi, is this all for you today?

Okay.

Okay, here you go.

- [Customer] Thanks.

- No problem, and thank you for your service.

- [Customer] Oh, thanks.

(loud pop) - Okay, your total is 42.60.

Uncle, you need help?

I can just give you change.

- No, I got them, I got them.

- Here.

Let me.

Here you go.

Okay.

Have a nice day.

Okay.

I'm so sorry.

Thank you for waiting.

Okay.

(trimmer whirring) - Hey.

Here boy.

- Oh it's okay Pops, no need.

- No, take them.

For gas.

- Mom said I cannot.

- You know what?

No tell mom.

No need tell mom.

- Okay.

- What you doing with this box over here?

- Oh, mom wanted me to stop by Goodwill on the way home.

- Boy, I ever told you what me and my friends did in the army when we knew we was getting shipped out?

- To Vietnam?

- Yeah.

So we knew we was gonna be homesick, so... Bring the box.

I'm gonna take them in the house.

- What should I tell mom?

- You are alone?

You were married.

- [Actor] Yes - [Actress] Children?

- [Actor] A daughter.

(dramatic movie music) (speaking foreign language) (crickets chirping) (low rumbling) (waves crashing) (rhythmic drumming) - Medic!

Help!

Medic!

Medic help!

(guns firing) - [Ghost Voice] Poki'i.

Poki'i.

Poki'i.

Poki'i.

Poki'i.

- Sergeant Major Poki'i.

- Yeah, that's me.

Who are you?

- Kolomona.

- Kolomona?

- Yeah!

You forget already?

- I never see you since Vietnam.

Why you stay here?

- Division Command sent me.

We are mustered.

We gotta go.

- In front of my house?

I can't go in these boro boro clothes.

- No time, Poki'i.

Just fall in line.

You'll see.

(tense music) Kolomona.

You went make.

In my arms at Hue.

- Was the next best thing to dying at home.

Wherever a Hawaiian goes, there too is Hawaii.

I never would forget that.

- Are you still make?

- So I went and asked Division if I can come get you.

So I can repay the favor.

(dramatic music) - I'm going to Heaven now?

- Better.

You're going to Kanehunamoku.

(rhythmic beating) (speaking foreign language) (horn blaring) (rhythmic drumming) (rain falling) (birds chirping) (text dings) (singing in foreign language) (dramatic music)