The trash cans are polite (mahalo means thank you).
We were picked up in front of the hotel at 8:30 and shuttled out to the Pearl Harbor Historic Sites.
We were picked up in front of the hotel at 8:30 and shuttled out to the Pearl Harbor Historic Sites.
First we went to the USS Bowfin, a World War 2 era submarine. With our tickets we each got a set of earphones and an audio tour, which was very helpful and informative. We also toured the USS Bowfin Museum.
We toured the entire sub--every inch of space is used. While these bunks look a bit close, I think I would rather sleep here than on top of the torpedos, where more bunks were located. Not all seamen had bunks--they worked shifts and also slept in shifts, taking turns in the bunks.
There was also a memorial to all of the submarines lost in World War 2, with a marble marker for each sub, listing the names of those lost. We could see the USS Missouri in the harbor but did not have time to tour it as well as the other things we had planned.
There was also a memorial to all of the submarines lost in World War 2, with a marble marker for each sub, listing the names of those lost. We could see the USS Missouri in the harbor but did not have time to tour it as well as the other things we had planned.
We took a ferry boat out to the USS Arizona memorial, which was built on top of the sunken ship. I lost count of the times I watched the actual footage of the battleship being bombed and exploding in a fireball on December 7, 1941. Each time was as horrifying as the last.
We could see the ship below us in the water, and there was a marble wall listing all of the men lost on the ship (over 1200). There was a separate plaque with the names and dates of those who survived the sinking of the Arizona but requested interment with their ship mates, some as recent as 2011. It was a heartbreaking sight.
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