This memo­r­i­al hon­ors 320 indi­vid­u­als (includ­ing 200 young African Amer­i­can men) who were killed in a muni­tions acci­dent dur­ing World War II while load­ing muni­tions and bombs onto ships bound for the Pacif­ic Rim. Fol­low­ing the explo­sion many of the enliste