<span>The son of Japanese immigrants, Daniel Ken Inouye volunteered for the U.S. Army after the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 and joined the famed Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Team. He lost his right arm in a firefight with Germans in Italy in 1945, and would win the Distinguished Service Cross--and belatedly, the Medal of Honor--for his war service. Elected to the House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1959, the year Hawaii became a state, Inouye entered the Senate in 1963. Over his long career, he was a steadfast voice for his state in Washington and drew national attention for his quiet but courageous leadership on high-profile Senate committees investigating the Watergate scandal and the Iran-Contra affair. At the time of his death, Inouye was the longest-serving current U.S. senator, having been elected to nine consecutive terms over 49 years.
Dr. Beech uses many different approaches to understand behavior and is interested in the ways in which these influences interact. Dr. Beech is adopting the development system approach.
