Posted on: Monday, May 31, 2004
Memorial Day events
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Advertiser Staff
Hawai'i residents will have several opportunities today to honor Americans who gave their lives for their country during Memorial Day events.
• The 53rd Mayor's Memorial Day Ceremony is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. at Punchbowl. Mayor Jeremy Harris will deliver the keynote address. He will be joined by U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawai'i, and Adm. Thomas Fargo, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, in laying a wreath at the cemetery's Dedicatory Stone.
Four F-15 Eagles from the 199th Fighter Squadron, 154th Wing, Hawai'i Air National Guard, will perform a missing-man formation flyover during the ceremony.
The public is encouraged to use special shuttles.
Buses will operate round-trip every 15 minutes from the Alapa'i express bus terminal at South King and Alapa'i streets between 7:15 and 8 a.m.
Parking will be free in the Civic Center parking lot next to the Honolulu Municipal building.
The buses will have signs, "Special Punchbowl Cemetery," and rides will cost $2 for adults and $1 for children. Monthly bus passes and elderly and disabled passes will be honored.
Parking will be prohibited from today through Monday between 5 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Puowaina Drive between Ho'oku'i Street and the gates to Punchbowl, and on Ho'oku'i between Puowaina and 'Auwaiolimu Street.
Parking also will be prohibited from 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on:
• The governor's annual Memorial Day ceremony is set for 1 p.m. at the Hawai'i State Veterans Cemetery in Kane'ohe. Gov. Linda Lingle will speak and lay a wreath with the adjutant general.
A helicopter flyover will be presented by the Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 362 from Marine Corps Base Hawai'i.
