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THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, October 28, 2010


A memorial plaque at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific dedicates the memorial to those who gave their lives in World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam.


PUNCHBOWL from 48 waiian name, “Puowaina,” the most common is “Hill of Sacrifice.” This translation closely


relates to the history of the crater. The first known use was as an altar where Hawaiians offered human sacrifices to pagan gods and the killed violators of the many taboos. Later, during the reign of Kame- hameha the Great, a bat- tery of two cannons was mounted at the rim of the


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Chapel at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific provides a place of solitude for honoring American war dead.


crater to salute distin- guished arrivals and sig- nify important occasions. Early in the 1880s,


leasehold land on the slopes of the Punchbowl opened for settlement and in the 1930s, the crater was used as a rifle range for the Hawaii National Guard. Toward the end of World War II, tunnels


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were dug through the rim of the crater for the place- ment of shore batteries to guard Honolulu Harbor and the south edge of Pearl Harbor. In 1940 Congress had authorized a small ap- propriation to establish a national cemetery in Honolulu with two provi- See PUNCHBOWL on 39


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