Today we went to the War in the Pacific memorial, which is right up the street from our house. It is to remember the 16,142 Chamarro and American casualties on Guam during WWII and the Japanese occupation of Guam from 1941-1944. It is on top of Nimitz Hill, which is also where we live. It is a beautiful place, except for the fact that people keep stealing bronze plates from the memorial to sell for scrap. Very sad.....put the parks service is working on replacing the missing plates.