President’s Message

PRESIDENT & CEO MESSAGE

This issue focuses on war stories from World War II.

In occupied Guam, an American pilot crash-landed during the liberation and was assisted by Chamorro civilians. Responding Japanese troops captured and later beheaded the pilot and one of the civilians who helped get the injured pilot out of the plane.

On the small Mariana island of Rota, a place under Japanese rule since 1914, four Chamorro men who had lived as subjects of Japan were executed by firing squad in 1944. The story delves into why they were slain by their masters.

In our third story, a young Chamorro nurse became a wartime midwife by delivering ten babies with no help from doctors as armed Japanese soldiers stood by. The parents told their children of this nurse, and decades later the babies she delivered never forgot her.

Our other coverage includes an interview with a woman who was born on Oahu six days before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Her mother chronicled the family’s journey. The story on this Pearl Harbor child includes a somber message from the district director of the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors of the terror and chaos of war.

We also have some updates on the 81st Commemoration of Pearl Harbor Day this December 7, 2022. The event will be held at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial and the hope remains that for the first time in two years, covid will not be a factor. The 79th Commemoration in 2020 during the midst of the pandemic was virtual, with no veterans and members of the public in attendance.

The 80th, held for invitation-only participants at Kilo Pier on Pearl Harbor Naval Base on December 7, 2021, had covid restrictions in place.

While the theme is not yet set, we can tell you that the keynote speaker for the 81st is Charles F. “Chuck” Sams III, the recently appointed director of the National Park Service. He is a Navy veteran and the first Tribal citizen to lead the Agency.

We will keep you up to date on the latest developments on the 81st Commemoration on our website, social media in addition to future issues of Remembrance.

We thank you for your continued support of Pacific Historic Parks. And a special thanks for the donations through nineyear-old history buff Harrison Johnson, the North Carolina student who is trying to raise $100,000 to support Pearl Harbor National Memorial. If you haven’t checked out his story, please visit our website and click on Harrison’s Heroes.

AILEEN UTTERDYKE President & CEO

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