National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific

This guide to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific follows Ernie Pyle, the World War II correspondent so trusted by soldiers that four hundred newspapers ran his column daily, and his death near Okinawa in April 1945. It traces how this Honolulu crater, an extinct volcano the Hawaiians called Puowaina, hill of sacrifice, opened in 1949 as a resting place for the war's dead. Look for the flat grass markers across the volcanic bowl.