This is the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific and the Honolulu Memorial. It is located in the extinct Puowaina volcano crater. Puowaina means 'hill of sacrifice.' The punchbowl was the site of many 'alii (royal) burials' and the place where offenders of certain 'kapus' (taboos), were sacrificied.
776 of the casualities from Pearl Harbor are buried here. This cemetery is one of two resting places for the recovered remains of WWII dead whose next of kin did not request return of the remains to the mainland or requested that they be buried here. Also interred here are 178 Wake Island dead and 848 unidentified US Servicemen who died fighting in Korea. The Punchbowl is now filled to capacity with 33,255 gravesites.
The Honolulu Memorial was erected in 1964 to honor the sacrifices and achievements of American Armed forces in the Pacific during WWII and the Korean Conflict. In 1980, it was enlarged to include the missing of the Vietnam Conflict.
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