HawaiiTsunami

Waiting for the Tsunami

HONOLULU -- Friday had been this kind of a day in aloha-land: Airlines announced they would offer more "post-recession" flights to Hawaii, house prices were rising -- median $597,000 -- in Honolulu; and then there was news of the death of Kermit Tyler, the Army Air Force first lieutenant on radar duty in Hawaii who dismissed the reports of an unusually large blip of fast approaching aircraft on the morning of December 7, 1941 with the infamous line, "Don't worry about it." On Waikiki Beach, as that relentless sun slid into the Pacific, a middle aged, "just married" couple-- he in black tie ...

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