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| USS Arizona Memorial volunteer HIlma Chang, right, meets President Bush and his wife, Laura, after the Bushes arrived aboard Air Force One at Hickam Air Force Base. The president was on a 12-hour stopover in Hawai'i yesterday following a whirlwind tour of Asia and the Pacific. |
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| Jeff Widener • The Honolulu Advertiser |
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| Above: President Bush looks on as wife Laura waves to the crowd after their arrival yesterday at Hickam Air Force Base. The couple spent 12 hours in Hawai‘i.
Jeff Widener • The Honolulu Advertiser Right: The president is greeted by Gov. Linda Lingle and the first lady is greeted by Lt. Gov. James "Duke" Aiona. Gregory Yamamoto • The Honolulu Advertiser |
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| The president and the first lady took a limousine from Hickam Air Force Base to start their 12-hour tour of O'ahu. The presidential motorcade included 25 vans and sports utility vehicles and a city ambulance. |
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| Jeff Widener • The Honolulu Advertiser |
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At the Arizona Memorial, Adm. Thomas Fargo, Mrs. Bush and the president each dropped a single flower into the water over the sunken battleship as a tribute to the men who died during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Gregory Yamamoto • The Honolulu Advertiser |
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| Above: Retired Vice Adm. Robert Kihune escorts President Bush to meet veterans of World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars on the deck of the USS Missouri.
Left: The president and first lady look over the plaque of the surrender site on the USS Missouri, as Sam Lowe explains the historical events. Japanese forces surrendered aboard the ship on Sept. 2, 1945. Gregory Yamamoto • The Honolulu Advertiser |
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| President Bush and wife Laura get a hug and a lei from a second-grader at Pearl Harbor Elementary School. The president and the first lady sat in the shade of a large banyan tree with 106 second-graders. Mrs. Bush read the book "Giggle, Giggle, Quack." |
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| Gregory Yamamoto • The Honolulu Advertiser |
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| Security was tight at Pearl Harbor Elementary School during President Bush's visit there. | People gather by the bus stop across the street from the school to get a glimpse of the president. | |
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Above: President Bush and wife Laura asked the second-graders if they had any questions and all hands went up at Pearl Harbor Elementary School.
Gregory Yamamoto • The Honolulu Advertiser Left: Second-graders Shaun Langaman, Hailey Kent, Roana Johnson-Cortez and Elizabeth Dela Fluente were excited about the president's visit. Deborah Booker • The Honolulu Advertiser |
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| Above: After their stop at Pearl Harbor Elementary School, the president and the first lady went to the Kahala Mandarin.
Right: Jessie Everham, 3, waves to the presidential motorcade as it leaves Pearl Harbor Elementary. Deborah Booker • The Honolulu Advertiser |
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| Aries Thurston holds her son, Kimo, as she looks out over the H-1 Freeway at the passing presidential motorcade from a parking lot near the Koko Head overpass in Kaimuki. Bruce Asato • The Honolulu Advertiser |
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| People on sidewalks along Kilauea Avenue get a view of President Bush's procession heading to the Kahala Mandarin. | By the closed-off entrance to the H-1 Freeway on Ward Avenue, motorists got out of their cars to get a glimpse of President Bush's motorcade. | |
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| A U.S. Coast Guard Cutter patrols the waters off the Kahala Mandarin, where the president and first lady were staying yesterday. |
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| Eugene Tanner • The Honolulu Advertiser |
