{"id":63707,"date":"2022-01-31T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retireenews.org\/?p=63707"},"modified":"2024-08-28T01:53:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T01:53:13","slug":"63707","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2022\/01\/31\/63707\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Six &#8211; 2005: Garro (Rojo) Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Special Thanks to&nbsp;<strong>Braden \u201cMongo\u201d Sakai<\/strong>&nbsp;for sharing these personal photographs.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-id=\"63714\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/01\/rojo-012-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/01\/rojo-012-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/01\/rojo-012-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-id=\"63711\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/01\/rojo-005-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/01\/rojo-005-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2022\/01\/rojo-005-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These two photographs are some friends with Ro at my house after he was recovering from cancer treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Left photograph: Standing (L-R): <strong>Glen \u201cKnockers\u201d Nakamura<\/strong>, <strong>Rollie \u201cDude\u201d Smith<\/strong>, <strong>Wade \u201cNinja\u201d Oganeku<\/strong>, <strong>Braden \u201cMongo\u201d Sakai<\/strong>, <strong>Michael \u201cStuck\u201d Blake<\/strong> and his son. Sitting: <strong>Kenneth \u201cDusty\u201d Sussel<\/strong>, <strong>Garro (Rojo) Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right photograph: Standing (L-R): <strong>Glen \u201cKnockers\u201d Nakamura<\/strong>, <strong>John \u201cKazi\u201d Hall<\/strong>, <strong>Michael \u201cStuck\u201d Blake<\/strong> and his son, <strong>Wade \u201cNinja\u201d Oganeku<\/strong>. Sitting: <strong>Kenneth \u201cDusty\u201d Sussel<\/strong>, <strong>Garro (Rojo) Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Garro (Rojo) Keeaumoku Johnson<\/strong> ended his long battle with cancer on October 29, 2006.&nbsp;In his second round with cancer, he refused to undergo further chemotherapy treatments. He passed away peacefully at Castle Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Related: <br><a href=\"https:\/\/punahou74.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/09\/in-memorium-ro-johnson\/\">Punahou Class of 74\u2019s Blog<\/a>   Didn&#8217;t know Rojo played the bass<br><a href=\"https:\/\/retireenews.org\/2016\/10\/29\/check-six-ro-johnson-10-years-ago\/\">Check Six \u2013 2006: Ro Johnson<\/a>   old photographs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:10px\"><em>The appearance of external hyperlinks did not constitute endorsement by Retiree News, this included the linked websites, information, products, or services contained therein. Retiree News did not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations. Additionally, some of the sites linked to may limit the number of stories you can access without a paid subscription. All links were provided with the intent of meeting the mission of Retiree News.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Thanks to&nbsp;Braden \u201cMongo\u201d Sakai&nbsp;for sharing these personal photographs. These two photographs are some friends with Ro at my house after he was recovering from cancer treatment. Left photograph: Standing (L-R): Glen \u201cKnockers\u201d Nakamura, Rollie \u201cDude\u201d Smith, Wade \u201cNinja\u201d Oganeku, Braden \u201cMongo\u201d Sakai, Michael \u201cStuck\u201d Blake and his son. Sitting: Kenneth \u201cDusty\u201d Sussel, Garro (Rojo) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":63714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"56794,44216,31947,51362,50521,44022","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12395,12386],"tags":[217,1685,4432,4605,6482,7567,9920,11958],"class_list":["post-63707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2000s","category-check-six","tag-199th-fighter-squadron-199-fs","tag-braden-mongo-sakai","tag-garro-rojo-johnson","tag-glen-knockers-nakamura","tag-kenneth-sussel","tag-michael-stuck-blake","tag-rollie-dude-smith","tag-wade-ninja-oganeku"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}