a. place where we we feel we can truly be hawaiian you know this is where we feel safe this is where we feel at home this is this is where we feel like our ancestors and everything all is with us you know this is takes our mind set off of what happened to us in one thousand nine hundred three and takes us back to that time. to boil palis in one hundred of. the last queen of why was overthrown by the americans in eight hundred ninety three the us an x. to y. a short time later in eight hundred ninety eight. favorably positioned in the pacific ocean the us set up a military base here. decades later the japanese launched a surprise attack on pearl harbor eight u.s. battleships were lost or damaged. the memorial for the sunken u.s. as arizona commemorates the events of that day and those who died.