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damnedifIknow

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16. Blame Netflix for this post

Reply to NightWatcher (Reply #11)

Mon Dec 8, 2014, 11:01 PM

Dec 2014

I've been watching several docs about this time period and find it extremely interesting. It's a a sad period I admit with all the inhumanity but it is something that caught my attention.

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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