"While world conflict had already begun, the United States had not yet entered into the war when the tabernacle was dedicated."
That would change on another sleepy Sunday less than four months later after Japanese warplanes launched a surprise attack on U.S. Navy ships at Pearl Harbor. More than 2,000 Americans died on that "day of infamy," as President Frankin D. Roosevelt declared — and the nation was propelled into a world war it had tried to avoid.
On the 75th anniversary of that horrific bombing, some Hawaiian Mormons will remember the small role their Honolulu tabernacle square — which suffered no damage in the assault — played as a refuge for thousands of LDS servicemen stationed in Hawaii.
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