- Oahu
- Pearl
Harbor
 - Arizona
Memorial
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- Our final days were spent in Oahu.
After arriving in Honolulu, we headed to
the USS
Arizona Memorial. This was a
particularly interesting experience for
Annette. She visited the memorial in 1976
while on a high school band trip. At that
time, the park was run by the Navy and
only included the boat trip to the
floating memorial. When the National Park
Service took over in the 1980s, a museum,
visitor center, and movie were added.
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- Pearl Harbor is a fascinating place to visit. The
National Park maps and signage are very helpful in
understanding the history of the Pearl Harbor
attack.
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- After visiting the memorial, we decided to visit
the two recent additions to the area: the USS
Missouri and the USS
Bowfin.
- First, we took the trolley to the USS
Missouri. This battleship was been
restored and can now be explored through a
self-guided tour. It is the ship where
Japan surrendered. We found it fascinating
and spent a couple hours visiting all the
compartments and decks. Below you see
Annette using the periscope, trying out a
bunk, and checking out the guns. Notice
the Arizona Memorial in the background of
the third photo.
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 - USS
Missouri
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- After returning from the island on the
trolley, we boarded the USS Bowfin (photo
above), a submarine. The audio tour took
us inside the submarine. Larry had to duck
his head most of the time. Both Annette
and Larry tried their hands at the deck
guns.
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- After an interesting day of historical
exploration, we headed into town. Our
hotel called Ala Moana was located next to
a large shopping mall. We walked over to
the Bubba Gump Seafood Restaurant and had
a good time answering Forrest Gump trivia
while eating dinner with Bill and Judy
Burns.
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- The next day we spent doing some business on the
island, before heading back to Phoenix on the red-eye
flight.
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- It was certainly a vacation we'll never
forget!
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