My DIL’s mother was at Sunday mass in Kaneohe when the bombs started——she was about 12,her older sister was so frightened that she fainted.
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My brother was stationed at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii before heading over to Vietnam in 1966.
The only other information I've dealt with on Hawaii is research I did for my thesis. I studied the 55th Massachusetts, the 2nd black regiment out of that State during the Civil War. The Lt. Colonel, later Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General was Alfred S. Hartwell. After the war he completed his law degree at Harvard, and left the U.S. for a job in Hawaii. He was appointed as a justice by King Kamehameha V to the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Hawaii. He married the daughter of a missionary from New England. They had 8 children. He served as Attorney General for King Kalākaua, He served as editor of the Hawaiian Gazette, a member of the Board of Trustees for the Planters' Labor and Supply Company, and president of the Pacific Cable Company. He also had his own law firm.
He supported the idea that the United States should acquire a permanent lease with Hawaii for a naval base at Pearl Harbor. According to a letter written by his son, he invested money in a consortium to dredge Pearl Harbor to improve its use as a naval base. Not long before he died, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii. By that time, Hawaii had been annexed to the U.S.