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Home of the Brave Hawaii in Kakaako

By BY DIANE S. W. LEE / DLEE@STARADVERTISER.COM

Dec. 17, 2019

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After 28 years in Kakaako, Home of the Brave Hawaii may close its doors before the end of this month.
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Home of the Brave Hawaii in Kakaako features over 100,000 artifacts, relics and memorabilia donated by World War II veterans and their families. Due to financial woes, museum president Glen Tomlinson is seeking a new location, community funding or a strategic partnership to keep the museum doors open.
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Home of the Brave Hawaii in Kakaako features over 100,000 artifacts, relics and memorabilia donated by World War II veterans and their families. Due to financial woes, museum president Glen Tomlinson is seeking a new location, community funding or a strategic partnership to keep the museum doors open.
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Home of the Brave Hawaii in Kakaako features over 100,000 artifacts, relics and memorabilia donated by World War II veterans and their families. Due to financial woes, museum president Glen Tomlinson is seeking a new location, community funding or a strategic partnership to keep the museum doors open.
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Home of the Brave Hawaii in Kakaako features over 100,000 artifacts, relics and memorabilia donated by World War II veterans and their families. Due to financial woes, museum president Glen Tomlinson is seeking a new location, community funding or a strategic partnership to keep the museum doors open.
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Home of the Brave Hawaii in Kakaako features over 100,000 artifacts, relics and memorabilia donated by World War II veterans and their families. Due to financial woes, museum president Glen Tomlinson is seeking a new location, community funding or a strategic partnership to keep the museum doors open.
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Home of the Brave Hawaii in Kakaako features over 100,000 artifacts, relics and memorabilia donated by World War II veterans and their families. Due to financial woes, museum president Glen Tomlinson is seeking a new location, community funding or a strategic partnership to keep the museum doors open.
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Home of the Brave Hawaii in Kakaako features over 100,000 artifacts, relics and memorabilia donated by World War II veterans and their families. Due to financial woes, museum president Glen Tomlinson is seeking a new location, community funding or a strategic partnership to keep the museum doors open.
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A collage of World War II veterans is featured in a "Wall of Fame" at the Home of the Brave Hawaii in Kakaako. Over 100,000 veterans have visited the museum over the past 28 years.
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USS Arizona survivor Lou Conter, 98, visited Home of the Brave Hawaii on a recent Monday to share memories of Dec. 7, 1941 when the Japanese launched a surprise aerial attack on Pearl Harbor. Museum president Glen Tomlinson hired a videographer to film promotional videos to help save the museum.
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Home of the Brave Hawaii in Kakaako features over 100,000 artifacts, relics and memorabilia donated by World War II veterans and their families. Museum president Glen Tomlinson, right, with USS Arizona survivor Lou Conter, center.
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USS Arizona survivor Lou Conter, 98, visited Home of the Brave Hawaii on a recent Monday to share memories of Dec. 7, 1941 when the Japanese launched a surprise aerial attack on Pearl Harbor. Museum president Glen Tomlinson hired a videographer to film promotional videos to help save the museum.
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Home of the Brave Hawaii in Kakaako features over 100,000 artifacts, relics and memorabilia donated by World War II veterans and their families. Due to financial woes, museum president Glen Tomlinson is seeking a new location, community funding or a strategic partnership to keep the museum doors open.
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USS Arizona survivor Lou Conter, 98, signs an autograph for Home of the Brave Hawaii president Glen Tomlinson.
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California resident Mary Wagner Kreigh, 82, donated her family’s USS Utah artifacts to Home of the Brave Hawaii in Kakaako. "I love this museum," said Kreigh, who visits every December for the anniversary of Pearl Harbor. "This is the one place that I will make sure I get to."
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California resident Mary Wagner Kreigh, 82, donated her family’s USS Utah artifacts to Home of the Brave Hawaii in Kakaako. "I love this museum," said Kreigh, who visits every December for the anniversary of Pearl Harbor. "This is the one place that I will make sure I get to."
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Located on the second floor of Home of the Brave Hawaii, a 1940s-themed speakeasy Wiki Waki Woo Tropical Bar & Lounge serves military-themed cocktails. Visitors can order a Bourbon Shake, Diamond Head Muleskinner or Stalin's Community Party Punch and explore the numerous World War II artifacts, relics and memorabilia inside the museum.
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Home of the Brave Hawaii president Glen Tomlinson talks to Mary Wagner Kreigh at the museum's 1940s-themed speakeasy Wiki Waki Woo Tropical Bar & Lounge. Kreigh, who was in town for events commemorating the 78th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, donated her family’s USS Utah treasures to the museum.
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Home of the Brave Hawaii in Kakaako features over 100,000 artifacts, relics and memorabilia donated by World War II veterans and their families. Due to financial woes, museum president Glen Tomlinson is seeking a new location, community funding or a strategic partnership to keep the museum doors open.
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