A Day of Remembrance

On the difference between Memorial Day and Veterans' Day.

An illustrated recounting of the first Decoration Day.

3 June update: Hawaiians fought in the Civil War.

The Tsunami: Seventy Years Ago

Tomorrow is the seventieth anniversary of the tsunami. The two big tsunamis affected different parts of coastal Hilo. There used to be many buildings along the makai side of Kamehameha Avenue. When the 1946 wave hit, most of them were smashed up, but the mauka buildings largely escaped damage.

This is perhaps the most known photo from the tsunami, of people running up Ponahawai Street.

And this is one of many buildings along Kamehameha wrecked by the tsunami.

William McKinley

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The Wikipedia article on William McKinley.

Historians regard McKinley's 1896 victory as a realigning election, in which the political stalemate of the post-Civil War era gave way to the Republican-dominated Fourth Party System, which began with the Progressive Era.

McKinley's name often figures among some in the Hawaiian sovereignty movement, because the United States annexed Hawaii under his administration.

1 August 2013

Today is the seventy-fifth anniversary of Bloody Monday (I'm typing this on 1 August at 8:50 p.m. Hawaii time). I have seen nothing commemorating the Hilo Massacre in the local paper or the local press in general.

Ilind: Resistance Notes, 1969-1970

Ian Lind on Hawaii's antiwar movement.

Bob Krauss Newspaper Index

http://manoa.hawaii.edu/hawaiiancollection/krauss/kraussabout.html