Monday, December 7, 2009

national memorial cemetery of the pacific


Lady Columbia symbolizes all grieving mothers and looks out on the cemetery 


Also known as  Pu'owaina Crater (Punchbowl) or "Hill of Sacrifice". A beautifully serene 116 acre resting place built in 1948 for over 25,000 men and women of three American Wars: WWII, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Over 776 victims from December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor were among the first to be buried here. There is also a special  monument for Hawaiian born Ellison Onizuka, astronaut, who perished aboard the Challenger Space Shuttle.

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