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50th anniversary of ‘Kahoolawe Nine’ begins year-long remembrance, lessons

Fifty years ago, as the U.S. Coast Guard turned away a flotilla of Native Hawaiians trying to make landfall on Kahoolawe, a lone Boston Whaler made its way through while carrying occupants who would become known as the Kahoolawe Nine.

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