USS Missouri hui is game for Hasbro marketing push

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jan 16, 2013

~~<p>Hasbro, maker of the Monopoly board game, has launched a campaign to retire a classic game piece to make way for a proposed new piece, and the USS Missouri Memorial Association Inc. is fully involved in an effort to save the battleship token.</p>
<p>"Hasbro's public relations firm reached out to us regarding the Monopoly campaign that was launched on January 9," said Jaclyn Hawse, director of public relations for the nonprofit organization that maintains the historic Battleship Missouri Memorial at Pearl Harbor.</p>
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Hasbro, maker of the Monopoly board game, has launched a campaign to retire a classic game piece to make way for a proposed new piece, and the USS Missouri Memorial Association Inc. is fully involved in an effort to save the battleship token.

"Hasbro's public relations firm reached out to us regarding the Monopoly campaign that was launched on January 9," said Jaclyn Hawse, director of public relations for the nonprofit organization that maintains the historic Battleship Missouri Memorial at Pearl Harbor. Login for more...