I will tell you what I know about that...
I don’t know why it is missing. However, given that it does list the City, Honolulu, it is plainly obvious which Island that is on. El Sordo can testify to the fact there is a raised seal on the thing, and it was legitimately obtained by me from HDOH. I have in the past posted pic’s of the receipt generated by my purchase of the COLB in 2007. I gave El Sordo those receipts to take a look at as well.
I do not know why the island of birth is left off that COLB. I can only guess that each COLB is generated by someone typing the information into a form. If that is the case, they may have left that off. For what reason I don’t know, but I can speculate it is because it is just so plainly obvious to anyone living in Hawaii that Honolulu is on Oahu. There is no other Honolulu in the islands.
I wish I had a better answer than that. Sorry.
Thanks for the info. But like I said—seriously—I’m not questioning the validity of your documents. At all. I just note that (1) the thing Obama posted looks just like the thing you have, and (2) there’s a discrepancy on yours, which to me shows how easily government records and documents can get messed up in processing entirely by accident.
The only other thing is that I doubt anyone has to type in each field, each time, in such a computer-generated form. That’d kind of defeat the purpose of putting it all in a database. For some reason we will never know, pulling up your name or SS# or whatever they use didn’t pull up the island. It means nothing. I have long been of the opinion that computers are the reason for the saying, “Stuff happens” (SFW version).