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Photos: Vietnam Medal of Honor recipient interned at West Hawai‘i Veterans Cemetery
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Community and family members gathered at West Hawai‘i Veterans Cemetery on Tuesday to honor veterans from Hawai‘i Island, including Army Sgt. 1st Class Rodney Yano, who was killed in Vietnam in 1969.
Family celebrates the internment of Army Sgt. 1st Class Rodney Yano at the West Hawai‘i Veterans Cemetery on Veterans Day on Nov. 11, 2025. (Photo courtesy: Claudia Chang)- Family celebrates the internment of Army Sgt. 1st Class Rodney Yano, who was a Medal of Honor recipient, at the West Hawai‘i Veterans Cemetery on Veterans Day on Nov. 11, 2025. (Photo courtesy: Claudia Chang)
- Family celebrates the internment of Army Sgt. 1st Class Rodney Yano at the West Hawai‘i Veterans Cemetery on Veterans Day on Nov. 11, 2025. (Photo courtesy: Claudia Chang)
- Sgt. 1st Class Rodney James Takashi Yano
- Sgt. First Class Rodney Yano (Photo courtesy: U.S. Army)
- Black and white photo of the Yano family receiving the Medal of Honor on behalf of Rodney Yano for his actions in the Vietnam War. (Photo courtesy: Glen Yano)
- Veterans Day ceremony at West Hawai‘i Veterans Cemetery. (Photo courtesy: Hawai‘i County)
- Veterans Day ceremony at West Hawai‘i Veterans Cemetery. (Photo courtesy: Hawai‘i County)
- Display of fallen veterans from Hawai‘i Island on Veterans Day at West Hawai‘i Veterans Cemetery. (Photo courtesy: Hawai‘i County)
- Display of fallen veterans from Hawai‘i Island on Veterans Day at West Hawai‘i Veterans Cemetery. (Photo courtesy: Hawai‘i County)
Yano, a recipient of the Medal of Honor, was buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu. His mother’s wish was to bring him home to the Big Island.
While his mother wasn’t alive to see it after passing in 2006, Yano, a native of Kealakekua, was laid to rest in Kona during a special ceremony on Veterans Day. His surviving family members, including a brother, were in attendance.
Yano will be the first Medal of Honor recipient to be interned at the cemetery.
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Photos are courtesy of Claudia Chang.
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