{"id":196284,"date":"2019-12-07T22:13:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T22:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/honolulu-world-war-ii-museum-fights-to-remain-open-for-more-pearl-harbor-anniversaries.html"},"modified":"2019-12-07T22:13:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T22:13:54","slug":"honolulu-world-war-ii-museum-fights-to-remain-open-for-more-pearl-harbor-anniversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/travel\/honolulu-world-war-ii-museum-fights-to-remain-open-for-more-pearl-harbor-anniversaries.html","title":{"rendered":"Honolulu World War II museum fights to sojourn open for some-more Pearl Harbor anniversaries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of Honolulu\u2019s great, offbeat treasures \u2013 the\u00a0Home of a Brave Museum<\/a> \u2013 needs assistance or Saturday\u2019s 78th anniversary of a conflict on Pearl Harbor might be one of a final times\u00a0it welcomes veterans and their families to share a drink and fight stories.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis looks like Grandpa\u2019s integument on steroids,\u201d says Glenn Tomlinson, owners of a museum.<\/p>\n

He founded\u00a0the museum in a early 1990s\u00a0in a low-rent district a few miles from Waikiki Beach after a successful gig heading Pearl Harbor veterans behind to a site of a bombings that got America into World War II for a 50th anniversary in 1991. He has given stretched it to embody a Brewseum \u2013 featuring nationally famous qualification beers<\/a> brewed by his adult children \u2013 and a Wiki Waki Woo Speakeasy, recognized by Yelp as one of a country’s best tiki bars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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But now gentrification is pricing Home of a Brave out of a increasingly tony enclave of Kakaako.<\/p>\n

Tomlinson has been means to keep it going by grants and a second debt though new efforts to pierce a museum closer to one of Honolulu\u2019s naval bases failed. And relocating directly onto a bottom would expected meant a passing of\u00a0the business\u00a0due to heightened confidence and a need to run a credentials check on all visitors.\u00a0So unless he finds a vital partner or angel investor, a museum will have to tighten a doors by year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is too critical to go away,\u201d Tomlinson tells USA TODAY. \u201cEvery night, we have people entrance in saying, \u2019This an American treasure. Save it!’ But\u00a0this isn’t for me. This is for a younger demographic that didn’t have a possibility to hear a stories.”<\/p>\n

The museum is home to\u00a0tales that veterans’ possess families might be conference for a initial time themselves.<\/p>\n

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One of a museum\u2019s many dear artifacts was donated posthumously by an annual caller he favourite to call “Leyte Larry.”<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was in a Battle of Leyte Gulf (in a Philippines) and he was a Marine who was shipped opposite a Pacific fighting opposite battles and afterwards was in a horrific, bloody conflict of Okinawa,” Tomlinson says.\u00a0“He came by a museum. He was one of a regulars on a debate each year. He used to bust my boundary each year, saying, \u2018Glenn, where\u2019s your Japanese rifle?!? This place is a joke.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Tomlinson told him, \u201cWell, Larry, no one\u2019s donated one and we don\u2019t buy anything. That\u2019s a rule: Everything has to be donated since we don\u2019t wish things \u2013 we wish a stories behind a artifacts.\u2019 He goes, \u2018Well, we have a World War II Japanese rifle.\u2019”<\/p>\n