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Men and women stand with wooden sticks for the ceremony.
A traditional Hawaiian site blessing and groundbreaking ceremony for our the Courts of the Missing project at the Honolulu Memorial within the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl occurred in December 2016. Image courtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers