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

Mon Dec 8, 2014, 08:13 PM

Dec 2014

(note: Only one small one of these existed on O'ahu: they would have had to fence in about a third of the island!)

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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

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

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

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

FYI . . . markpkessinger Dec 2014 #14

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

Blame Netflix for this post damnedifIknow Dec 2014 #16