SERVICE MEMBERS AND CIVILIANS COMMERATED THE PUBLIC CELEBRATION OF LIFE FOR WEST LOCH INTERNEES
AT THE NATIONAL CEMETERY OF THE PACIFIC. THE CELEBRATION HONORED SERVICE MEMBERS KILLED
DURING THE WEST LOCH DISASTER MAY 21, 1944.
"SO ON THIS HALLOWED GROUND ON THIS PUNCHBOWL WHERE SO MANY OF OUR FALLEN ARE AT REST WE
STOP, WE PAUSE, AND WE RELFECT ON THAT WHICH HAS MADE OUR COUNTRY GREAT, ITS WILL, ITS
INDOMINABLE SPIRIT TO NEVER EVER GIVE UP."
DRUING THE COMMORATION PARTICIPANTS CONDUCTED A WREATH LAYING AND AN ANCESTRAL LIBATION
POURING CEREMONIES IN HONOR OF THOSE KILLED. REPORTING FROM JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR - HICKAM,
I'M PETTY OFFICER DUSTIN SISCO.
