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December 7th—An American Legacy
By Bob Ruegsegger When President Franklin Roosevelt addressed the United States Congress on the day after the assault on Pearl Harbor, his visage was stern and his words were direct. Roosevelt no longer had time for diplomacy. “Yesterday, December...
Hawaiian Plantation Life Revisited at Waipahu’s Village Museum
By Bob Ruegsegger Hawaii’s Plantation Village Museum is nestled in the low rolling hills of Waipahu, fifteen miles northwest of bustling downtown Honolulu. Slumbering peacefully in the shadow of the pale slender smokestack of the now expired Oahu...
