Editorial: Remembering the lives of Korean War dead

These were lives cut short by war, and yet filled with stories. The first of the 55 burial sets of U.S. service members lost during the Korean War have been ID’d as the remains of Master Sgt. Charles McDaniel and Pfc. William Hoover Jones.

Just 19 when he died, Jones was part of the African-American 24th Infantry Regiment, then based at Schofield. Even Hawaii has that segregationist page in its history.

McDaniel was 32. His son shared stories, and hopes for answers to his own questions about his father, on the Korean War Project online. Look up all their remembrances at www.koreanwar.org.

Here comes the new Magnum, P.I.

Thomas Magnum returns to the tube this evening — three decades after the last “Magnum P.I.” episode aired. The reboot features Magnum (Jay Hernandez) as a decorated former Navy SEAL, back from the war in Afghanistan, whereas Tom Selleck’s original was a Vietnam vet. Among the other tweaks: no mustache, and no male Higgins.

At the recent Sunset on the Beach event in Waikiki, which celebrated both the new series and the ninth season of the rebooted “Hawaii Five-0,” Hernandez was joined on the red carpet by cast members, including Perdita Weeks, who plays the Higgins character — now called Juliet, rather than Jonathan.