Blackened Canteen Ceremony & Youth Symposium

Thursday, December 6:
Blackened Canteen Ceremony & Youth Symposium. Dr. Hiroya Sugano, Director General 3 of the Zero Fighter Admirers’ Club, comes from Japan to conduct this annual commemoration of peace and reconciliation ceremony with a silent prayer and pouring bourbon whisky from a WWII blackened canteen into the water from the USS Arizona Memorial as an offering to the spirits of the fallen. For reservations call (808) 282-6570; first come first served.  Following the Ceremony will be a youth symposium, held in the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Theater.  The Symposium will highlight the story and lessons of the ceremony, commemorating the friendship, honor and reconciliation borne out of the horror of WWII. Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, 319 Lexington Blvd., Honolulu. Ceremony, 7 a.m.; Symposium 10 to 11 a.m. The Symposium is free, but advance registration is requested. Seating is limited. For information call (808) 445-9137 or visit www.pearlharboraviationmuseum.org.