Tribute to Admiral Richard Camacho
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2012-02-17
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February 17, 2012
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United States Government Printing Office 732 North Capitol Street, NW, Washington, DC 20401-0007
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Mr. INOUYE. Mr. President, I wish to say a few words of tribute today on behalf of my friend Admiral Dick Camacho, on the occasion of his retirement from the private sector. Admiral Camacho’s ties to Hawaii go back to the 1870s, when his family emigrated from the Azores and began working on coffee and plantations on the Big Island and Oahu, respectively. His father went through the machinist apprentice program at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and was working there as a supervisor when it was attacked on December 7, 1941. Then eight-year old Dick Camacho waited for two days before hearing from his father that he was okay and had been working around the clock putting out fires and assessing the damage from the attack.
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Congressional Record Tribute
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Camacho did post-graduate work in Electrical Engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey
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Vol. 158 Congressional Record -- Senate ; S904
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.