- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941
Today we had one of the most amazing educational opportunities that any educator and student could have, to actually visit one of the most important places in American History…Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona Memorial. The students impressions and comments about their experience today were invaluable. We are working on a video of today’s program in which we toured not only Pearl Harbor, but many other important historical sites in Honolulu. We hope to post the video on the blog tomorrow. Please find below some pictures of the students and their tour…
Stay tuned for the video tomorrow…
A view of the USS Missouri (where Japan surrendered) and the Arizona Memorial. The placement of the two memorials is considered to be the bookends of the war...the beginning and the end!
Students touring various memorials on shore.
Our group photo in front of the Arizona's anchor.
Viewing the memorials dedicated to all of the submarines lost during the war.
Group photo with the Arizona and Missouri in the background.
Waiting to board the shuttle boat to the memorial.
At the memorial viewing the memorial wall.
Listening to the Park Ranger.
The names of all lost that day.
Inside the memorial.
Looking down on the wreck and the tomb of all those sailors.
The oil is still leaking from the ship nearly 70 years after sinking..
One of the stacks.
The Arizona's original mooring.
We also visited Punch Bowl national military cemetery of the Pacific.
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