Posted on May 22, 2018

Madame Pele, Hawaii’s goddess of volcanoes, awes those living in lava’s path

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel

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Before rising to prominence as a general during World War II, George S. Patton, then the Army’s chief intelligence officer in Hawaii, tried bombing the lava flow from the eruption of the Mauna Loa volcano in 1935 in an attempt to divert it.

Madame Pele, Hawaii’s goddess of volcanoes, awes those living in lava’s path

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Before becoming a Christian...no, even still, my Hawaiian mother-in-law swears she saw Pele and Wahieloa walking on a beach she was on in Maui.

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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel

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LCDR (Join to see) Starting Tour in Makalapa Crater, Second Tour of Duty was in the Shadow of Great Sitkin, Mt Pinatubo Survivor and Retired in the Shadow of Mt Rainier, I Have a Special Relationship with Madame Pele!

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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth

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Great history share brother.

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Madame Pele, Hawaii’s goddess of volcanoes, awes those living in lava’s path

Madame Pele, Hawaii’s goddess of volcanoes, awes those living in lava’s path

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