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f not for the “King of Rock and Roll,” the USS Memorial might (viewable at ) relates how the rock star donated more than $60,000 in ticket sales from the concert at Pearl Harbor’s Bloch Arena, making headlines and prompting Congress to contribute the final $150,000 in funding toward the memorial, which opened, appropriately enough, on Memorial Day 1962.