A PACIFIC HISTORIC PARKS PUBLICATION
USS ARIZONA MEMORIAL
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WITH EXHIBIT ON ARCHITECT ALFRED PREIS
Spring 2022
CONTENTS
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Spring 2022
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President’s Message
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Alfred Preis Exhibit
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USS Arizona Memorial Turns 60
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Kalaupapa December 7, 1941
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A Long Overdue Recognition
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Solemn USS Arizona Interments
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Prayer for the Dead
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You Make It Happen!
8 MISSION STATEMENT To support the USS Arizona Memorial and other Pacific historic locations through education and interpretive programs, research, preservation, and restoration, to perpetuate the memory of events and honor the people involved in these sites. Remembrance is published four times a year as a benefit to Friends of Pacific Historic Parks. Cover Photo of the USS Arizona Memorial by Olivier Koning
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Preis designed ILWU Building photo courtesy Robert Wenkan, courtesy of the Wenkam Family Archive and Preis Family Archive
President & CEO Aileen Utterdyke
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Board of Directors Alan Mattson, Chairman Jeff Bell, Vice Chairman Alma M. Grocki, Secretary Clif Purkiser, Treasurer James M. Boersema Noel W. Bragg Alma M. Grocki Patricia A. Lucas Edward J. Lynch
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Board of Directors (cont.) Mark Y. Matsunaga Dr. Ed Noh Michael Olson Theodore Peck Alby L. Saunders Mathew Sgan Agnes T. Tauyan Directors Emeritus Neil A. Sheehan Geoffrey M. White Joachim P. Cox, Legal Advisor
Publication Advisers Aileen Utterdyke Edean Saito Editor Jim McCoy Layout & Design Chase Nuuhiwa
PRESIDENT & CEO MESSAGE This spring issue of Remembrance focuses on a pair of special events happening in late May involving the USS Arizona Memorial. An exhibit on the grounds of the Pearl Harbor National Memorial examines the life story of the architect who designed the USS Arizona Memorial. Alfred Preis is the Austrian immigrant of Jewish descent who with his wife fled the Nazis in Europe only to be locked up in Honolulu as suspected enemy aliens the night after the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. The exhibit will coincide with the USS Arizona Memorial turning 60 years old this coming Memorial Day. It opened on May 30, 1962, following years of debate, along with public and private fundraising that included a concert at the Bloch Arena by Elvis Presley. This issue also covers the solemn interment services for USS Arizona crewmembers who survived the day of infamy, and then chose to be buried with their shipmates still entombed on the Arizona. There have been 45 interments, the first one happened in 1982 and the 45th this past December 7 on the attack’s 80th Commemoration.
From Kalaupapa National Historical Park on Molokai, we bring you the story of how patients in the Hansen’s Disease colony heard about the Pearl Harbor attack, and how they reacted. And we then fast forward to the present with an update on how the remaining patients are coping with the pandemic. Finally, we take you to a packed ballroom in Waikiki where Chinese American veterans who served in World War II were presented with one of our nation’s highest honors, the Congressional Gold Medal. We hope you enjoy this issue and we thank you for your continued support of Pacific Historic Parks. Your support helps us accomplish our mission to Remember, Honor and Understand World War II in the Pacific.
AILEEN UTTERDYKE
President & CEO
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THE LIFE AND JOURNEY OF RENOWNED ARCHITECT
Alfred Preis
Laupahoehoe Elementary and High School (now Laupahoehoe Charter School) , Photo Robert Wenkam, courtesy of the Wenkam Family Archive and Preis Family Archive.
A traveling exhibition celebrating the life and work of the renowned Austrian architect Alfred Preis (1911-1994) will open in late May at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial.
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ropical Modern: Alfred Preis Displaced, will focus on the Austrian émigré, advocate and architect of the USS Arizona Memorial. The exhibit is timed to open when the iconic war memorial known worldwide turns 60 years old. The exhibition focuses on the rediscovery of the vast architectural body of Preis’s work. Preis gained international recognition and accolades for the 1962 USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, a project that he advocated and fought for throughout most of his architectural career. This is particularly remarkable,
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considering that he was an escapee of Nazi prosecution and ended up in US internment after the attack on Pearl Harbor, suspected to be an enemy alien. Undeterred, after his release, he forged a path of persistent advocacy for the greater good, promoting the arts and the preservation of the cultural heritage of his chosen new home, Hawai‘i. After an arduous escape with his wife, the young Preis gained experience through working in the architecture firm of Dahl and Conrad. Later he pursued a career as an independent and collaborating architect, becoming
1963 Honolulu Zoo Entrance, Alfred Preis. Photo Francis Haar, courtesy of Tom Haar, and The Francis Haar Collection at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
an instrumental shaper of the regional modernism of Hawai‘i. With over 160 documented buildings, the show attempts to weave through the complex and rich stories of Preis’s life, highlighting critical projects and the dialectic connection between his Viennese upbringing and the contrasting Hawaiian lifestyle that filter through his architectural expression. Through his work, the curator attempts to illuminate the issues of displacement for the refugee and him finding his way in a foreign environment, and the emerging architectural methods resulting from the fusion of his Viennese training with the local, Hawaiian context. In over 100 images, models, and videos, ALFRED PREIS DISPLACED guides the visitor from his humble beginnings to the peak of his architectural career, which culminated in the USS Arizona Memorial. The exhibition was first on display in New York City at the Austrian Cultural Forum and is next shown at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial on O‘ahu, opening on the governor decreed “Alfred Preis and USS Arizona Memorial Day”, May 30th 2022, on the 60th anniversary of the USS Arizona Memorial inauguration. The exhibition is put forth with the support of the Austrian Consulate General in Los Angeles, the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture and Civil Service and Sports of Austria, and the Preis family. The author, Axel Schmitzberger, is a professor of Architecture at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is the curator for the upcoming exhibit Alfred Preis Displaced.
1961 James Harrison Residence, Honolulu, Alfred Preis. Photo Robert Wenkam, courtesy of the Wenkam Family Archive and Preis Family Archive
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Dedication Day at the USS Arizona Memorial Memorial Day May 30, 1962 by Daniel A. Martinez, Park Historian, NPS
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arly in 1960 the Navy began site preparation work for the building of the USS Arizona Memorial. The contract to construct the memorial was awarded to the Walker Moody Construction Company.1 According to the late NPS historian Michael Slackman “behind the dedication ceremonies on Memorial Day 1962 lay the unsettled question of the USS Arizona Memorial's purpose. Was it primarily to entomb the dead or was it a quest to commemorate the significance of the events of December 7th 1941?” 2
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In 1960 and 1961 that issue revolved around the question of the memorial's dedication date. A Memorial Day dedication would imply that it was essentially a cemetery; a December 7th dedication implied a commemoration of the attack. There was much confusion among the officials of the Pacific War Memorial Commission (PWMC) and the Navy. Plans for the dedication wavered back and forth between December 7th 1961, the 20th anniversary of the attack, and Memorial Day 1962. The latter date was chosen for one reason, as much as any other, that is because construction could not be completed in time for a December 7th ceremony. 3
The ceremony of dedication was shifted to May 30, the nation’s Memorial Day. That day the ceremony began at mid-morning. Over 200 invited guests attended the ceremony hosted by the United States Navy. The sky was blue with the puffy clouds hugging the Koolau range of mountains that served as a backdrop for the auspicious historic moment. Present for this ceremony was the senior surviving officer from the Arizona and Medal of Honor recipient Samuel Fuqua. The retired Rear Admiral had flown in from St. Petersburg, Florida. He stated he was “most pleased” with the gleaming white memorial.4 Among the 200 guests were grieving Gold Star mothers and next of kin of some of those who were lost when the USS Arizona went down. Civic leaders and military dignitaries from the Navy and Marine Corps attended as well.5 They keynote speaker was Congressman Olin E, Teague, a decorated WWII veteran, Chairman of the Home of Veterans Affairs. Passages of his speech echoed the themes of the Cold War era… “modern methods of transportation and modern weapons have forced on us a togetherness before we were socially, economically or morally mature enough to handle it…And yet after 21 years we should have reached that degree of maturity. We must have it if we are to survive. Too many Americans have become hysterical because of the Communist threat.”5 A large wreath about 4 feet wide was dropped from the memorial into the waters of Pearl Harbor. The floral tributes of red roses, anthuriums and orchids. One wreath carried the message “Beloved Son, Clyde”. 6 After the ceremony concluded sailors from a nearby destroyer manned the rails of the ship as the Marine detail fired a 21gun salute from a salvage platform attached to the fallen ship. Those that attended walked about the memorial for their own inspection of Alfred Preis’ beautifully designed memorial. A Honolulu Advertiser photographer Mr. T. Umeda captured a touching image of Mrs. Bright, a resident of Kaneohe, reaching out with her finger to touch the name of her nephew, Walter S. Roberts, Jr., RM1c, whose name was etched on wall along with 1,777 Sailors and Marines. 7 It was carried on the front page the Honolulu Advertiser on May 31, 1962.
1 Remembering Pearl Harbor, Slackman, Michael p 74 2 Remembering Pearl Harbor, Slackman, Michael IBID 3 Remembering Pearl Harbor, Slackman, Michael IBID 4, 5,6,7 Honolulu Advertiser Page 1 May 31, 1962
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HOW KALAUPAPA LEARNED PEARL HARBOR WAS ATTACKED by Sister Alicia Damien Lau
This past December 7, 2021, was the 80th commemoration of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. If you asked anyone where they were on December 7, 1941, most would remember. Ten year old Henry upon admission to Kalihi Hospital
Portrait of Uncle Henry 1995
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y parents were just married on December 6, so everyone was still partying when the bombs fell on Pearl Harbor. Wondering about Kalaupapa, I found that many of the children with leprosy, were at the Kalihi Hospital in Honolulu and witnessed the bombing themselves. In Kalaupapa, Uncle Henry Nalaielua was here when the bombing happened. He tells of the account in his book, “NO FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND - A Memoir of Kalaupapa.” It was a Sunday morning, and they had just finished their breakfast, Uncle Henry’s favorite - “steak and eggs with rice and coffee.” He says, “the oldest guy at Baldwin Home, Hayashi, had a radio turned on in the dorm, tuned to his favorite Honolulu station. But instead of hearing music, we found out that the Japanese Imperial Navy had just made an unprovoked sneak attack on Pearl Harbor wreaking havoc and destruction on all Hawaiian military bases but especially Pearl Harbor Naval base where the battleships were being bombed relentlessly. We all crowded around Hayashi’s radio, listening to sirens in the background of the news report.”
Uncle Henry with Polynesian Voyaging Society navigator Nainoa Thompson
Martial law was declared in Hawaii. He tried to call his parents; however, all calls were cancelled. His greatest fear was that two of his brothers would join the U.S. Armed forces since they were already in the National Guard. Rationing became a way of life affecting food, gasoline, and everything else. They could not get poi and had to rely heavily on rice. Uncle Henry “did not like the blackout.” All activities had to cease at 9pm and the blackout was total. Car and truck headlights were painted black except for a little hole in the middle. Shades were pulled and only BR light was left on. “We were young, and it did not matter, but lots of patients were quite handicapped and were groping around in the dark, barely able to see where they were going.” The war did not touch them at all. Uncle Henry goes on to say, “Ironically, although we were essentially imprisoned at Kalaupapa, we had more freedom and privacy and less war-induced hardship than many of Hawai’i residents.”
Six months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, most of the children from Kalihi Hospital were transferred to Kalaupapa on May 15, 1942. The forty-two children between the ages of nine and eighteen created a change for the Board of Health. Providing diversions and education for them resulted in the formation of the Kalaupapa Boy Scout Troop No. 46 and establishing a school using equipment from Mount Happy School in Kalihi.
UPDATES ON THE PANDEMIC The pandemic took its toll on the nine remaining patients at Kalauapapa National Historical Park. Relatives and close friends were forbidden to visit, and news stories chronicled their loneliness and disappointment. On Jan 6, 2022, a ceremony was held on Kalaupapa to mark the 156 years to the day since the first dozen residents landed on the isolated peninsula. The irony was not lost on remaining patients who were quarantined for contracting Hansen’s Disease but became prisoners during the COVID lockdown. Also in January 2022, which had been designated Kalaupapa Month, loved ones and supporters began a campaign asking for letters of support. PHP joined in the letter writing campaign asking our members and donors to write letters. See the results above and check our PHP social media for additional photos. “They are just delighted that people are writing to them and they are not forgotten,” Sister Alicia Damien Lau said. And there’s a positive update to go with those letters of support and encouragement. In mid-March 2022, at roughly the two-year anniversary of the pandemic shutdown, the state Health Department began allowing limited visits by relatives and friends of the patients to the settlement. There are still stringent rules to be followed. And the park remains closed to the general public and commercial tours.
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A LONG OVERDUE RECOGNITION FOR CHINESE AMERICAN WORLD WAR II VETERANS By Jim McCoy, Pacific Historic Parks
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hey faced decades of discrimination dating back to the Civil War. That didn’t stop 20,000 Chinese Americans to step up and serve in World War II.
Four years ago, Congress awarded them the Congressional Gold Medal, a rare honor that expresses national appreciation for their service. The COVID pandemic triggered delays in the formal ceremonies. For Hawaii-based Chinese American veterans, it finally happened in a packed ballroom in Waikiki on February 6. "It was long overdue recognition for these World War II veterans. They had to fight to join in order to fight, and they did,” said retired Army Major General Robert Lee, co-chair of the Hawaii Congressional Gold Medal Committee.
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At the luncheon, 173 medals were awarded to Chinese American World War II veterans from Hawaii. Twenty living veterans accepted in person, the rest went to family members of veterans, many of them deceased. Speaker after speaker congratulated the veterans and their families. The families posed for photos beaming with pride. “Very unexpected,” was the reaction of 96-year-old Fred Aleong Wong, who served in China as a radar technician in the Army Air Corps. After the war he had a successful career at the FAA installing and maintaining guidance systems.
The families of Robert Mau (left) and Fred Wong (right) were among hundreds attending the event honoring the service of Chinese American veterans.
Robert Mau, 94, was just 14 when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He along with some classmates quit school and went to work in a cafeteria for Naval employees. He later enlisted in the Army. One of his daughters, Laurel Mau, said the gold medal is in her father’s house next to the urn containing the remains of his late wife, Loretta Mau . “The medal is so prestigious. We have never had something so beautiful,” Laurel Mau said. “My mom is waiting to be buried with my dad. She has had the first-row seat up in heaven and watched over all of us and is very proud of my dad.” The event at the Hilton was followed the next day with a memorable visit to Pearl Harbor National Memorial. The National Park Service in conjunction with the U.S. Navy arranged a late afternoon visit to the USS Arizona Memorial for members of the Gold Medal delegation. The visit turned out to be special on several fronts. It just so happened that the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson was at Pearl Harbor that day for a short stop on its way back to San Diego. The NPS explained the significance of that in contrast to December 7, 1941. “It happened that morning that all the aircraft carriers were out delivering planes to other islands so none of them were in port that morning,” David Kilton, Chief of Interpretation at Pearl Harbor National Memorial, told the visiting Gold Medal families as they prepared to board the Navy shuttle with the huge aircraft carrier as a backdrop.
Historians say if the Navy’s three carriers that were stationed at Pearl Harbor in 1941 were in port that day, it could have changed the course of the war in the Pacific. Retired Rear Admiral Alma Grocki, whose late father Albert Lau was among those awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, led the delegation to the Memorial. She was accompanied by her mother Dorothy Lau. Just before boarding, Admiral Grocki invited a group of park visitors to join the delegation as there were empty seats on the after-hours shuttle. Dennis and Annette Forster from Minnesota were among the visitors pleased to be welcomed aboard. As the Navy shuttle passed the Carl Vinson as it prepared to depart Pearl Harbor, the Forsters were glued to their seats staring at the carrier sailors as they began to man the rails, a tradition when passing the USS Arizona Memorial. Turns out the Forster’s youngest son is a Catapult officer, better known as a shooter, on the carrier. “And the really great thing was that today he turned 22,” Annette said. “It was super cool. I was crying.” So while they didn’t get to physically visit their son on his birthday, they experienced a passing ship memory from Pearl Harbor that they will never forget.
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REFLECTIONS ON USS ARIZONA INTERMENTS “It was just a sense of complete peace” Frances Goldsberry, daughter of the 45th USS Arizona sur vivor who chose interment
by Rebecca Schwab
On the rainy morning of December 7, 2021, a small group gathered at the USS Arizona Memorial for the 45th interment of a crew member and survivor of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. On this 80th anniversary of that devastating event, U.S Navy Lt. Harvey Milhorn returned to the ship as his final resting place. Milhorn was a 20-year-old Gunner’s Mate 3rd Class aboard the USS Arizona on the morning of December 7, 1941. He and his best friend and fellow crew member Russ Tanner were discussing plans to see A Yank in the R.A.F. at a Waikiki theater later that day. Their conversation was suddenly interrupted by the sound of gunfire. “We kind of thought it was a drill,” Milhorn told WAVY TV in a 1991 interview. “About that time, a torpedo plane dropped a torpedo into the Oklahoma. We saw the meatballs of the rising sun on the wings, and we knew it wasn’t a drill then.” Milhorn and Tanner parted ways, running to their respective battlestations - Milhorn to the birdbath, a platform with .50-caliber machine guns 147 feet above the ship, and Tanner to the .50-caliber machine guns on the forward bridge. It was the last time Milhorn saw his best friend. Minutes later, a 1,760-lb. bomb struck near USS Arizona’s gun turret no. 1, setting off the ship’s forward magazine and causing a massive explosion so strong it lifted the ship partially out of the water. Hundreds of USS Arizona crew members in nearby sleeping quarters were killed instantly. Those on deck suffered the effects of the resulting fireball that would burn for more than two days, reaching temperatures as high as 8,000°F. The force of the blast blew Milhorn hard into the handrail. Intense flames and hot metal made exiting through the front 12
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of the birdbath impossible, so he made his way down the rear ladder to the main deck port side. Dazed, injured, and realizing the Arizona was lost, he asked for and was granted permission to abandon ship. He jumped overboard and swam through oil-slicked waters to nearby Ford Island. “I can close my eyes and … see the ship burning and the explosion,” Milhorn said in the 1991 interview. “I guess it’s burned in my mind, in my memory. I’ll probably never get over it.” In spite of severe burns to his hands, Milhorn immediately volunteered to go aboard the USS Tennessee to continue the fight. He fought throughout the Pacific in the months and years following the attack and chose to stay in the military even after the end of World War II. By the time he retired as a lieutenant in February 1970, Milhorn had given more than 30 years of dedicated service to the U.S. Navy. “My career was very rewarding, and if I could, I would do it all over again,” Milhorn said. But his daughter, Frances Goldsberry, said he struggled dearly throughout his life to deal with his memories of the Pearl Harbor attack. “He would talk about it - not very often, but when he did, it was like he was reliving it,” she said. “I guess he just had to get it out. You could see it in his eyes. He’d get so upset.” Milhorn, who passed away in 2002 at the age of 80, had signed a letter of intention expressing his wish to be interred
While survivors each have their own reasons for choosing to return, it often comes back to that central theme: being with their buddies. “When he got older and would talk about things, he would tell us, ‘I want to be cremated, and I want to be back on the Arizona with my shipmates,’” Goldsberry said of her father. Life circumstances and finances kept the family from making the trip for many years after his death, but last year Goldsberry and her daughter, Rachel Yarasavich, finally brought Milhorn’s ashes from his home state of Virginia to Hawaii for the interment. In a ceremony she described as solemn and respectful, Goldsberry said one specific moment stood out in her mind. on the USS Arizona. This honor is reserved only for those crew members who were aboard the ship on December 7, 1941. Ever since the first interment of GM2c. Stanley Teslow in 1982, National Park Service and U.S. Navy divers have considered it their privilege to return these men to their final resting place on the Arizona. Each water-tight urn is carefully placed into the fully submerged open barbette of gun turret no. 4, located close to the stern. “At the base of the gun turret is a 5.5-foot crevice,” former Interpretive Park Ranger Gary Jackson said in a park documentary called Eternal Peace. “Here they will insert the urn … allowing [these crew members] to spend eternity with the shipmates they left behind, still serving the Arizona to this day.”
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“We walked up to throw flowers into the water at the railing,” she said. “Everyone was standing there. It had been raining and messy all day, and the wind was horrible. The poor [sailors], their hats kept flying off!” But everything changed, she said, when the wind suddenly stopped, the sun broke through, and a beam of sunlight shone down on the pillar in the memorial where her father’s name was inscribed. “You read about things like that, but until you experience it…” she said. “[The interment] brought so much closure. It was just a sense of complete peace. Everything got washed away.”
“Eternal rest grant unto them and let perpetual light shine upon them and may they rest in peace.”
John Albert Ballard USS Curtis Hemet, CA
Eugene Thomas O'Neill USS Rigel New Hope, NJ
Dale Edwin “Red” Robinson Schofield Barracks Decatur, TX
William Mansfield Braddock Jr. Ford Island NAS Pensacola, FL
William David Payne Hickam Field Hardin, KY
Fred L. Robinson Schofield Barracks Rockledge, FL
Robert Ally Carter USS Tennessee Irving, TX
Raymond M. Reiland USS Raleigh Iowa City, IA
Durward Brice Swanson Hickam Field Knoxville, TN
Thomas Harold Gilliam Fort Kamehameha Hagerstown, MD
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The Legacy Society Create a legacy that will ensure history will never be forgotten Since 1980, millions of people from every state of our nation and from 40 countries around the world have seen, experienced, and been inspired by the valor and sacrifices of the Greatest Generation at Pearl Harbor and throughout the Pacific Basin. The Legacy Society was created to acknowledge and celebrate family and friends who desire to keep history alive and to honor the sacrifices of the World War II generation. Members have affirmed Pacific Historic Parks in their estate plans or through other planned gifting arrangements. Planned gifts provide a unique opportunity to preserve our country’s military heritage through supporting Pacific Historic Parks while possibly receiving tax benefits on income. TYPES OF PLANNED GIFTS Charitable Bequest Life Insurance Life Income Gifts Charitable Gift Annuity Charitable Remainder Trust
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Alfred Preis (middle) during a visit to the construction site of the USS Arizona Memorial in 1960 or 1961. Photo courtesy Preis Family Archive.