Updated at 6:11 p.m., Monday, December 4, 2006
Events marking Dec. 7, 1941, attack under way
Advertiser Staff
The National Parks Service, the U.S. Navy are other organizations are marking the 65th anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack of Pearl Harbor with several public events.
A symposium with scholars, authors, attack survivors and former Japanese aviators runs through tomorrow at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa. There will be panels, lectures and bus tours of historic sites. The symposium cost is $25, but attack survivors and a guest are invited to attend free of charge.
The optional attack site bus tour, with lunch, is $67.50. A speakers' reception is $25. For more information and symposium times, call (888) 485-1941 or visit www.arizonamemorial.org.
A black-tie dinner and dance featuring live band music and entertainment from the 1940s will be held at 6 p.m. tomorrow at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa. Tickets start at $250 per person with proceeds going to the Pearl Harbor Memorial Fund, which was set up to try and replace the existing visitors center. For more information, call (866) DEC-1941 or visit www.pearlharbormemorial.com.
Former NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw will be the keynote speaker Thursday at the 65th anniversary ceremony of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack. The event this year will be held at a different location — Kilo Pier on Naval Station Pearl Harbor, rather than the back lawn of the USS Arizona Memorial Visitors Center.
The ceremony starts at 7:40 a.m. but will require an early start for the public in order to gain access to the military installation. Security screening will be done at the visitors center and the public will then be taken by boat to the pier. Two boats will leave at 5:45 a.m. and again at 6:45 a.m. Invited guests and Pearl Harbor survivors cleared by the Navy may drive directly onto the pier. Survivors who have not registered to attend may call the Navy protocol office at 473-2206.
The U.S. Navy League's Barbers Point Council will remember four Marines killed at Barbers Point during the attack by Japanese bombers with a public ceremony at 1 p.m. Thursday at a memorial built on the former Barbers Point Naval Air Station. Enter through the Geiger Road gate, turn left at the first road and enter the golf course parking lot.
