05/28/2026
**DID YOU KNOW**
Elvis Presley played a major role in helping fund the completion of the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii. In 1961, Presley performed a benefit concert at the Bloch Arena in Pearl Harbor, raising more than $50,000 for the memorial project. At the time, fundraising efforts for the memorial had stalled, and Elvis’s enormously popular concert helped generate both money and national attention for the cause. The memorial was later dedicated in 1962 and honors the 1,177 crewmen who died aboard the USS Arizona during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
