MEMORIAL DAY TRIBUTE

On this Memorial Day weekend, we pay tribute to all those in the military who gave their lives to protect our freedoms. Thousands of lei are strung by volunteers from around O'ahu as a labor of love, and draped on gravesites at Punchbowl National Cemetery.

 

  National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific - Punchbowl



 Memorial Day

 Sad Reminders Row by Row

Tombs of the Unknown

Honor Guard Prepares
Posting of Fifty State Flags
Tribute to Deceased

 

Tribute from 442nd Division Vets Clubs

"Traditional Hula" Tribute



Lineup for Presentation of Flowers

Presentation of Floral Arrangements

 



Punchbowl Cemetery



View Within Punchbowl
In the Distance, Diamond Head
Memories Abound
 

 

Link to National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific site:
http://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/nmcp.asp

Memorial Day is a day to remember 
the men and women who died
in the service of
the United States Armed Forces

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All photographs taken by Gail Baugniet during a  
Memorial Day Service 
at Punchbowl Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii

Flat Mary Day 8 cont. Queen Kapi'olani Garden 6/6

 

 

 

   

 

 

  

   

Queen Kapiˋolani Garden and Park

Flat Mary Day 8 cont. Waikiki Aquarium 5/6

 

Waikiki Aquarium

 The aquarium is on the Diamond Head side of Waikiki, across from Queen Kapiolani Park. It is built next to the Waikiki shoreline, near a living coral reef. Inside the aquarium are lots of coral reef exhibits.

 

   Entrance to Aquarium   

Huge live fish in tank

                                               

 

The aquarium tanks are filled with seawater.

  

  

Just like the fish at Hanauma Bay.

  

   

This Hawaiian monk seal kept hiding underwater.

Then he swam to the top and made faces at us.

     

More jellyfish. It was so much fun watching them float around.

Flat Mary Day 8 cont. Peace Park 4/6

 

LEAHI PARK

 

After the Diamond Head hike and Shave Ice, we looked at the trees and lava boulders

in Leahi Millennium Peace Garden.

   

In 1999, seven hundred and fifty students from around the world attended the Millennium Young People’s Congress in Honolulu, Hawaii. They talked about climate change, peace, human rights, and poverty. Then they buried a time capsule for United Nations Day. It will be opened on October 24, 2049.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace.                                                          Today there is no longer a choice between

One must believe in it.                                                                 violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence

And it isn’t enough to believe in it.                                          or nonexistence. I feel that we’ve got to look at this

One must work at it.                                                        total thing anew and recognize that we must live together.

Eleanor Roosevelt                                                                                                                   Martin Luther King Jr.

U. N. Diplomat and Humanitarian                                                                                    1964 Nobel Prize Laureate