Partners With National Park Service And Zero Fighter Admirers' Club Japan For The Event Aboard The USS Arizona Memorial
For the past 26 years, Dr. Hiroya Sugano, Director General of the Zero Fighter Admirers’ Club in Japan, has traveled to Pearl Harbor, Oahu to conduct a ceremony of peace and reconciliation aboard the USS Arizona Memorial. Wednesday morning, on the eve of the 76th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and with the assistance of the National Park Service and Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor, Dr. Sugano offered prayers and poured bourbon whisky from a WWII-blackened canteen into the water from the USS Arizona Memorial as an offering to the spirits of the fallen.