On 5/1/2016 7:18 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Sunday, May 1, 2016 at 12:50:59 PM UTC-10, S Viemeister wrote:
>> On 5/1/2016 5:17 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>> Sanford Dole was part of a group of businessmen (Committee of Safety) that overthrew the Kingdom of Hawaii. Not cool! He was also Hawaii's first President. You better believe that his company would be involved with such shenanigans!
>>>
>> I did a paper on that, for a history class in high school. It was a
>> fascinating period.
>
> My father-in-law's mother in Montana would read accounts of Queen Liliuokalani's plight in the newspaper and weep. President McKinley's willingness to turn his back on the naive and trusting Hawaiians seemed to be an un-American thing to do.
>
Not all that un_American...
After the monarchy was overthrown, it didn't take many years for Hawai'i
to become a US territory.