Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 23, Number 11, 1 November 2006 — Stryker Brigade [ARTICLE]
Stryker Brigade
Ka Wai Ola'& 'Okakopa report on the Army taking steps to protect a heiau in Schofield raises the question: if Kamehameha II ordered heiaus on all the islands destroyed, why weren't all of them destroyed? And by ordering these heiaus destroyed, abolishing the Hawaiian religion, the kapu system, the clubbing death of Hawaiians who sinned by breaking a kapu, sacrificing Hawaiians to appease the gods, etc., are we still to consider them of cultural significance? Are these the kind of ideas, customs.
skills, etc. we want passed along to succeeding generations? The Stryker Brigade is here because the people "we elected" to Congress brought them here. Many of these soldiers are Hawai'i's sons and daughters. Please don't turn your backs on them like many of you did to us who fought in Vietnam. 8/7/ Punini Prescott Nānākuli, O'ahu