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he Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community near Scottsdale, Memorial Gardens at Salt River, honoring the crew of the battleship sunk at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941. It centers on a building housing ’s midships boathouse—gifted to the museum as part of a nationwide memorial effort—while more than 1,500 illuminated pillars (matching the number of crewmen aboard that day) mirror ’s outline.

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