By WILLIAM COLE | The Honolulu Star-Advertiser | Published: January 2, 2021 (Tribune News Service) — Following the surprise removal of a Naval Air Station Barbers Point memorial in 2018 and a couple of failed efforts to relocate it, AMVETS Hawaii is again trying to rebuild the pole-mounted scale model P-3 Orion aircraft surrounded by a moss rock wall. A backlash in the military community—particularly among the thousands of Navy veterans who served at the base—followed its removal. The now-shuttered Barbers Point at one time was the largest naval air station in the Pacific, with 6, 500 military, family members and civilians. The "crossroads of the Pacific " had about six P-3 Orion sub-hunter squadrons and around 50 of the propeller aircraft.