@Gefn @mystery-ak @Cyber Liberty@TomSea@Once-Ler @Elderberry"That all changed recently when Defense of POW/MIA Accounting Agency officials told Lynne Werner, Day’s niece, that his remains were identified out of the hundreds of unknown sailors buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii, also known as “
the Punchbowl.â€"
I have been to that cemetery, The Punchbowl. It is called Punchbowl due to it is a large depression in the earth, a "bowl" that is an ancient volcano. One of our astronautes is buried there and has special markings on the grave site.
I have been to Hawaii several times; once when my military son was stationed there. I was taken to the memorial that time in the Admiral's boat. Son was in charge of military fuel on the island. There are massive amounts of stored fuel that supply our airplanes there and for all bases across the ocean from there.
Son took me to a mountain; looks like a plain mountain, but it isn't. There is access to it if you know where to go. Inside the mountain are huge carved out basins that are stories tall, one after another where fuel is stored. One walks on metal walkways to and around these large basins. It was his job to run this mountain of fuel - he is a specialist in any type fuel and does that today.
I was also taken to the main air base building. It is the same building that was there at the time of the bombing and strafing by bullets from the Japanese airplanes. The pock marks on the building made by the strafing were left there; only the inside of the building is different than back then. You stand outside and see these pock marks and your mind can imagine how it was when the Japanese attacked; military men killed by these bullets on the airfield when they were trying to get to their planes to enjoin the battle. Then we went inside the building to have dinner in the nice dining room. I felt it strange to go from the reminder of the attack into the nice dining room.
So much history of our country is there and it is still a large working military air and ship base. Everyone there is reminded every day of what happened there and determined it will not happen again.