Edited sentence: All adult citizens of the State of Hawai'i are free to vote for their representatives, a right which many did not have in 1893.Hawai'i elected Senators Inouye and Akaka, and at least one Representative (Neil Abercrombie) consistently vote in favor of military spending in Hawai'i.In 1903, a native Hawaiian delegate, Prince Kuhio, delivered Hawaii's first petition for statehood to Washington.. Prince Kuhio and other native Hawaiians favored Statehood.In the 1959 plebiscite preceding the formal declaration of Statehood, only 6% of the voters opposed the measure whereas 94% voted in support...Nor have there ever been.Senator Inouye, a world war II veteran, has stated that, "Hawai'i remains one of the greatest examples of a multiethnic society living in relative peace.The last military occupation in Hawai'i occured in the spring or summer of 1795, when King Kamehameha, well armed and with a large, well trained army, swept across Maui, Moloka'i, and finally to Nu'uanu, O'ahu, where his forces drove hundreds, perhaps thousands, of O'ahuan Hawaiians off steep cliffs to their deaths...There are no soldiers quartered in citizen's homes in Hawai'i.There is no military threat, implied or otherwise, against the citizenry or anyone in Hawai'i