Hawaii - Pearl Harbor

After yesterday’s disappointing tour at the Polynesian Cultural Center, I am happy to report that our tour of Pearl Harbor sites was excellent. The USS Arizona Memorial is reached by boat and spans the submerged deck of the battleship. It includes a wall of names of the soldiers lost in the attack. Deborah had visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in 1995 when she was in Japan for business. She said seeing Pearl Harbor really completed the circle of events for her.


We got to climb all over the Battleship Missouri as well. Now decommissioned, its decks were the site of the signing of the Japanese surrender. It is docked facing the USS Arizona as if the two were bookends marking the beginning and end of the war.





And this is the USS Bowfin which is submarine to which we were too cheap to pay admission.