Pause At A Cemetery For HeroesO‘ahu
NATIONAL CEMETERY OF THE PACIFIC, also known as PUNCHBOWL, is the resting place of more than 25,000 people who served in one or more of three American wars. This 112-acre cemetery lies in the middle of an extinct volcano called PUOWAINA CRATER. (In Hawaiian, puowaina means, “consecrated hill,” or “hill of sacrifice.”)
The cemetery

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In addition, the cemetery is known as the site of secret Hawaiian royalty burials.