Updated at 1:42 p.m., Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Hawai'i Marines to honor Ford with 21-minute salute
Advertiser Staff
Hawai'i Marines will honor late former President Gerald Ford at noon today with a loud and impressive firing of their M102 105mm howitzers.Four howitzers will fire simultaneously once a minute for 21 minutes, said 1st Lt. Binford Strickland, spokesman for Marine Corps Base Hawai'i.
The salute will take place outside the Pacific War Memorial at the main gate to the base on Kane'ohe Bay. Battery C, 1st Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, will conduct the salute.
The howitzers are used sparingly by the Marines these days and are brought out mostly for ceremonial use.
Ford, the 38th president, was buried today in Michigan.
