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KamaAina

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1. There is a marvelous exhibit on that at the Army Museum in Waikiki

Reply to damnedifIknow (Original post)

Mon Dec 8, 2014, 08:02 PM

Dec 2014

They had their own money, stamped "HAWAII", because of fears that the Japanese would try to undermine the U.S. dollar by counterfeiting. All the beaches were strung with barbed wire. And the period began the islands' infamous love affair with Spam; fresh meat was no longer being shipped in, so only pork from Okinawan families who kept pigs was available. Several of them made a killing in the restaurant business.

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Hawaii under martial law was like ‘military dictatorship’ (1941-1944) [View all] damnedifIknow Dec 2014 OP

There is a marvelous exhibit on that at the Army Museum in Waikiki KamaAina Dec 2014 #1

That museum is a really good one. When I lived in Waikiki for a year, I visited it neverforget Dec 2014 #3

It wasn't so much a fear of counterfeiting. roamer65 Dec 2014 #7

Thanks Obama. FSogol Dec 2014 #2

That can't be right. FDR was President... SidDithers Dec 2014 #4

All those fairy tales about internment camps for Japanese-Americans are bogus, too. KamaAina Dec 2014 #5

But he was reacting to a deadly air attack on U.S. soil by by sworn enemies Ward Dec 2014 #6

it's considered a smear to even mention this JI7 Dec 2014 #10

And I do not think Hawaii was a state. That being said I think it was bad to place them under jwirr Dec 2014 #12

Hawaii was not a state until August 21, 1959 Cha Dec 2014 #13

FYI . . . markpkessinger Dec 2014 #14

Thank you. I heard the phrase and knew the US vets were furious but no one bother to explain jwirr Dec 2014 #17

can't be right, someone has forged history steve2470 Dec 2014 #15

Right. PragmaticLiberal Dec 2014 #18

Not surprising. roamer65 Dec 2014 #8

Hawaii wasn't a U.S. state in 1944. Did the Constitution apply? Xithras Dec 2014 #9

"Like" a military dictatorship? Isn't that what "Martial Law" is defined as? NightWatcher Dec 2014 #11

Blame Netflix for this post damnedifIknow Dec 2014 #16