Demonstration turns into shoving match at state Capitol

[Don]

Originally Posted by Mikell

Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii, IS American soil. The Japanese bombed the hell out of it and there were civilian casualties. It was the reason America joined the war. Btw, English civilians suffered many German bombings on their soil.

At the time Hawaii was bombed, it was not a state but was a territory, like Alaska, Midway Island, Wake Island, Guam and the Phillipines, all of which were bombed and invaded by the Japanese.

The US mainland was not touched by bombs and returning WW2 vets did not have to deal with bombed cities, massive famine, epidemics and a slaughtered civilian population.