Mahalo nui to the Protect Kahoʻolawe ʻOhana Emmett Aluli and Walter Ritte were among the Kahoʻolawe Nine, who first landed on Kahoʻolawe on January 4, 1976, to protest the Navy using the island for bombing practice and to occupy Kahoʻolawe to get it to stop. In interviews done with us four years ago, Emmett described what he saw and felt when on Kahoʻolawe and Walter shared what he saw and felt when leaving. We are deeply grateful to the Kahoʻolawe Nine. If you didn’t go we couldn’t go, as our a