More than 1 million people visit the
USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu in Hawaii each year, but extremely few visitors get the up close and personal look at the iconic battleship that a pair of Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) members had late last year.
The brothers contacted the Navy and their father received full military honors as the ashes were spread near the
USS Arizona memorial.
Annual ceremony of reconciliation at the
USS Arizona Memorial in tribute to the casualties of the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.
Later, he was to visit Pearl Harbor and the
USS Arizona memorial for the U.S.
On November 3, Trump will visit Hawaii and receive a briefing from the US Pacific Command, and visit Pearl Harbor and the
USS Arizona Memorial, the announcement said.
Jim said he is keen to visit the
USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii, which is dedicated to those killed in the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbour in 1941.
Other WWII historic sites visited included the USS Bowfin, USS Missouri,
USS Arizona Memorial, and National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
In Honolulu, Pence will meet with the US military's senior leadership from the Pacific Command, and visit the
USS Arizona Memorial to pay honour to the victims of the Pearl Harbor attack which helped bring the United States into the Second World War.
Mike Skowronski (above left) pilots a remotely operated vehicle into the remains of the battleship Arizona at the
USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, as Evan Kovacs and Maryann Morin (right) of the Advanced Imaging & Visualization Lab (AIVL) at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution watch imagery streaming back to the surface.
His historical recollections have been recorded by the United States Department of the Interior and are part of the permanent record in the
USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii.
Rodrigues' father, in his 90s, is a Pearl Harbor survivor and regularly represents all survivors as a volunteer at the
USS Arizona Memorial.
