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Veterans Advisory Committee Minutes August 28, 2018 Page 9 Request to Erect Memorial Stone at WHVC Scattering Garden Deputy Corporation Counsel Yoshimoto recommends the committee make a motion and vote as far as whether it has a recommendations to provide, per the code this committee has the power to provide recommendation. Chair Doolittle asks the members in Kona if they'd like to make the motion. Minoru Hanato made a motion for the committee to support the project of erecting a memorial stone. George Sheridan seconded the motion. Unanimously in favor. Reports on Cemeteries Chair Doolittle confirmed already discussed and asked if there are any announcements. ANNOUNCEMENTS Emile Wery announced that on Veterans Day, November 11th a Sunday, Veterans Cemetery #1 will have a ceremony that starts at 11:OOam. This is the centennial date for World War 1 Armistice. VFW in Honolulu will have their ceremony at the Natatorium. The Natatorium is technically the only World War I Memorial in the state of Hawaii. Korean War Veterans got all the approvals for our memorial, they are just waiting for the contractor to come back. The memorial will go up next to the Vietnam memorial. We still have an issue with the Vietnam Memorial are wrong and he doesn't know if the County will resolve it. Deputy Director Messina explained yes, the County will resolve it. As far as the County is concerned, prior to that memorial going up the names that are on that and the names on the one at Veterans Cemetery #1 they will be the exactly the same. Emile Wery another issue is there are two sites on the interne, DOD sites, one lists all the Korean War KIAs by State and the other lists KIAs by city or town. The site also states whether the person is KIA or non -hostile. Non -hostile can mean several things, two are listed non -hostile external gunfire and the other one, non -hostile hand grenade, (chuckles) we all know what that means. But they don't have a Purple Heart, so they can't be on the KIA list. Some of the Korean War Veterans are concerned because of the families. Three of them are on the plaque. Technically they don't have a Purple Heart, they are not KIA, and additionally three of them on the memorial were not even killed. Chair Doolittle asked if there is anything the committee needs to do regarding that? Emile Wery answered no. Chair Doolittle asked if anyone else has announcements.