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**Media Contacts:**

Lisa Ontai Lt. Barbara Mertz

National Park Service Navy Region Hawaii

*Arizona* Memorial Museum Association Office: 808-473-2888

Cell: 808-375-9352 Email: <barbara.mertz@navy.mil>

Email: ontai@pixi.com

**Pearl Harbor 65th Anniversary:**

**\"A Nation Remembers\"**

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**Pearl Harbor 65^th^ Anniversary Symposium**

**December 2 - 5, 2006**

**Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa**

For more information, visit [www.arizonamemorial.org]{.underline} or
call 1-888-485-1941.

**Free History Channel Documentary Night.**

**December 3, 2006, 7:30 p.m.**

**Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa, Tapa Ballroom**

For more information, visit [www.arizonamemorial.org]{.underline} or
call 1-888-485-1941.

**Pearl Harbor 65^th^ Anniversary Gala Dinner**

**December 5, 2006, 5:30 p.m.**

**Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa, Coral Ballroom**

For more information, call (866) DEC-1941, visit
[www.pearlharbormemorial.com]{.underline} or email
<info@pearlharbormemorial.com>

**Unveiling and Hawaiian Blessing of a new USS *Arizona* battleship
museum scale model**

**December 6, 2006, 4:30 p.m.**

**USS *Arizona* Memorial Visitor Center Museum**

For more information, call (866) DEC-1941, visit
[www.pearlharbormemorial.com]{.underline} or email
<info@pearlharbormemorial.com>

**Pearl Harbor Day 65th Anniversary Commemoration featuring former nbc
news anchor Tom Brokaw as keynote speaker.**

**December 7, 2006, 7:40 a.m.**

**Commemoration Site: Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Kilo Pier**

**Live Broadcast Site: USS *Arizona* Memorial Visitor Center**

For more information please call 808-422-2771 or visit
**www.nps.gov/usar/index.htm**. 

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**New Pearl Harbor Survivors Project Website**

***New Website Invites the Nation to Rebuild the Day That Lives In
InFamy***

For more information, visit
[www.pearlharborstories.org](http://www.pearlharborstories.org/) or call
1-866-PHSTORY

**National Park Service, USS *Arizona* Memorial & Visitors Center**

**Special Operations schedule on December 7, 2006**

For more information please call 808-422-2771 or visit
**www.nps.gov/usar/index.htm**. 

**Pacific Aviation Museum Grand Opening**

**December 7, 2006, 11:30 a.m.**

**Ford Island, Pearl Harbor**

For more information please call the Pacific Aviation Museum at
808-690-0169 or visit 
[[www.pacificaviationmuseum.org]{.underline}](http://www.pacificaviationmuseum.org/)

# Public Events Descriptions

**Pearl Harbor 65^th^ Anniversary Symposium, December 2 - 5, 2006**

**Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa**

***Unprecedented Gathering of Pearl Harbor Historians, Authors and
Survivors***

Join nationally acclaimed authors, historians and actual Pearl Harbor
survivors and Japanese aviation veterans in an unprecedented gathering
to recount the events that lead America into World War II. Hosted by the
National Park Service and the *Arizona* Memorial Museum Association, the
Pearl Harbor 65th Anniversary Symposium will include panels, lectures,
receptions and bus tours to actual attack sites throughout Oahu.

For more information, visit [www.arizonamemorial.org]{.underline} or
call 1-888-485-1941.

**History Channel Documentary Night, 7:30 p.m., December 3, 2006**

**Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa, Tapa Ballroom,**

The public is invited to attend a free special showing of rare Japanese
and American newsreel footage from actual 1941 news reports on the
attack of Pearl Harbor, *\"How They Reported It: The Japanese and
American Newsreel Media.\"* Hosted by the History Channel, National Park
Service and Arizona Memorial Museum Association, the event will also
feature two special panel discussions: *\"How They Reported It:
Contrasting Headlines of December 7^th^, 1941 & September 11^h^,
2001,\"* featuring noted media experts and news reporters; and *\"A New
Beginning: The Pearl Harbor Historic Sites,\"* featuring representatives
from USS *Bowfin* Submarine & Museum, USS *Missouri* Battleship
Memorial, Pacific Air Museum, and a special film from the new Pearl
Harbor Memorial Museum and Visitor Center. Admission is free, seats are
available on a first come, first serve basis.

For more information, visit [www.arizonamemorial.org]{.underline} or
call 1-888-485-1941

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**Pearl Harbor 65th Anniversary Gala Dinner**, **5:30 p.m.,**

**December 5, 2006**

**Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa**

An elegant black-tie dinner dance with Pearl Harbor Survivors featuring
live band music and entertainment from the 1940's. Tickets start at
\$250 per person with proceeds benefiting the Pearl Harbor Memorial
Fund. The Pearl Harbor Memorial Fund is leading the charge to replace
the physical home for Pearl Harbor history---the USS *Arizona* Memorial
Museum and Visitors Center. The existing facility, which is in
disrepair, will be replaced by a new larger, Pearl Harbor Memorial
Museum & Visitors Center.

For more information, call (866) DEC-1941, visit
[www.pearlharbormemorial.com]{.underline} or email
<info@pearlharbormemorial.com>

**Unveiling and Hawaiian Blessing of a new USS *Arizona* battleship
museum scale model, 4:30 p.m., December 6, 2006**

**USS *Arizona* Memorial Museum and Visitor Center**

Thanks to the generosity of the Starr Foundation, a new USS *Arizona*
battleship scale model has been built to replace the existing model in
the USS *Arizona* Memorial Visitor Center Museum. Using newly discovered
research about the USS *Arizona* and the latest model building
technology, the new model will be the most accurately depicted replica
of the USS *Arizona* battleship to date. Eight USS *Arizona* survivor
veterans will assist with the official unveiling, to be followed by a
Hawaiian Blessing and reception. For more information, call (866)
DEC-1941, visit [www.pearlharbormemorial.com]{.underline} or email
<info@pearlharbormemorial.com>.

**Pearl Harbor Day 65^th^ Anniversary Commemoration, 7:40 a.m., December
7, 2006**

***Former NBC Nightly News Anchor Tom Brokaw to be Keynote Speaker***

**Ceremony Site: Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Kilo Pier**

**Live Broadcast: USS *Arizona* Memorial Visitor Center**

The National Park Service and Navy Region Hawaii will host the 65th
Anniversary Pearl Harbor Day Commemoration on Thursday, December 7,
2006, 7:40 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at Kilo Pier on Naval Station Pearl Harbor.
The Kilo Pier venue looks directly out on the USS *Arizona* Memorial
situated in Pearl Harbor approximately half a mile away. More than 1,500
Pearl Harbor Survivors and their families and friends from around the
nation will join 2,000 distinguished guests and the general public for
the annual observance of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

Former NBC Nightly News Anchor and Managing Editor Tom Brokaw will serve
as the keynote speaker for the commemoration. Other guest speakers
include Governor of Hawaii Linda Lingle; Secretary of the Department of
the Interior Dirk Kempthorne; Admiral Gary Roughead, Commander, US
Pacific Fleet; and Ronald D. Sugar, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer, Northrop Grumman Corporation.

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Highlights of the ceremony will include music by the U.S. Pacific Fleet
Band, morning colors, a Hawaiian blessing, a rifle salute by members of
the U.S. Marine Corps, wreath presentations, echo taps and recognition
of the men and women who survived that December 7, 1941 and those who
gave the ultimate sacrifice for their country. At 7:55 a.m., the exact
moment the Japanese attack began 65 years ago, a moment of silence will
be observed. A U.S. Navy ship will render honors to the USS *Arizona.*
Hawaii Air National Guard F-15s will fly over the memorial in a "missing
man" formation.

> **Public Access to the Pearl Harbor 65^th^ Anniversary Commemoration
> at Kilo Pier**

The commemoration is free of charge and a limited number of seats are
open to the general public. Due to strict security measures on Naval
Station Pearl Harbor, only invited guests will be allowed access on base
in their vehicles. General public wishing to attend the Commemoration
will be required to board US Navy boats departing from the USS *Arizona*
Memorial Visitor Center which will transport them to Kilo Pier and the
commemoration site. Seats for the general public on the US Navy boats
and at the commemoration are limited, and available on a first come,
first served basis. The first US Navy boat for the general public will
depart from the Visitor Center at 5:45 a.m., the last boat will depart
at 6:45 a.m. Parking for the general public is available at the USS
*Arizona* Memorial Visitor Center. Attendees should allow a minimum of
an extra 15 minutes for parking and to pass through security. [Pearl
Harbor Survivors who would like to attend this ceremony and are not part
of the National Pearl Harbor Survivors Association convention, can
contact the Navy Region Hawaii Protocol Office, at
808-473-2206.]{.underline}

> **Live Broadcast of Pearl Harbor 65^th^ Anniversary Commemoration at
> Visitor Center**
>
> For the general public who are not able to secure a seat at the
> Commemoration, the National Park Service and Arizona Memorial Museum
> Association has arranged to have the Commemoration broadcast live into
> the USS *Arizona* Memorial Visitor Center\'s two movie theaters and
> onto special tv screens located on the Visitor Center\'s backlawn
> area. Seating in the movie theaters is limited and available on a
> first come, first serve basis.

**USS *Arizona* Memorial Public Tours**

> The regularly scheduled National Park Service public tours to the USS
> *Arizona* Memorial will be operating on a special schedule on December
> 7. The first public tour will begin at 10:45 a.m. with the last tour
> beginning at 2:30 p.m. The program includes a 23-minute movie
> presentation followed by a visit to the Memorial. Ticket distribution
> will begin at 7:30 a.m. when the Visitor Center opens. For more
> information please call 808-422-2771 or visit:
> http://www.nps.gov/usar/index.htm. 
>
> **Security**
>
> Personal cameras may be used, however due to strict security measures;
> NO camera bags, purses, handbags and/or other items that offer
> concealment are allowed in the Visitor Center or at the Ceremony.
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> **Dress Code**
>
> The civilian dress code for the Commemoration at Kilo Pier is Aloha
> crisp attire. Military dress is summer whites or service dress
> equivalent with ribbons, no medals.
>
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> **Children**
>
> Due to the formality and length of the commemoration, it is
> recommended that children under the age of 8 not attend the
> Commemoration at Kilo Pier.
>
> **Directions**
>
> [Car]{.underline}
>
> From the Honolulu/Waikiki area, take Ala Moana Blvd. /Nimitz Highway
> or H-1 Freeway West. While on H-1, look for the USS Arizona/Stadium
> exit, #15A. The USS *Arizona* Memorial is located off of State Highway
> 99 (Kamehameha Highway) about a 45-minute drive west of Waikiki.
>
> [Public Transportation]{.underline}
>
> Honolulu public transit buses stop regularly at the Visitor Center and
> can be boarded in Waikiki. The #20 and #42 bus will take you to the
> USS *Arizona* Memorial Visitor Center.
>
> **Information**
>
> For more information on the Pearl Harbor Day 65th Anniversary
> Commemoration, visit www.nps.gov/usar or call the National Park
> Service at (808) 422-2771.

**National Park Service, USS *Arizona* Memorial & Visitors**

**Operations on December 7, 2006**

The National Park Service, USS *Arizona* Memorial and Visitors Center
public tours to the USS *Arizona* Memorial will be operating on a
special schedule on Dec. 7. The first public tour will begin at 10:45
a.m. with the last tour beginning at 2:30 p.m. The program includes a
23-minute movie presentation followed by a visit to the Memorial. Ticket
distribution will begin at 7:30 a.m. when the Visitor Center opens. For
more information call 808-422-2771 or visit
**http://www.nps.gov/usar/index.htm**. 

**Pacific Aviation Museum Grand Opening**

**December 7, 2006,11:30 a.m.**

**Ford Island, Pearl Harbor**

The Pacific Aviation Museum Grand Opening will take place on Ford Island
in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7 at 11:30 a.m. immediately following the Navy
and National Park Service ceremony. The public is invited to the
ceremony featuring guest speakers Chuck Yeager and Wally Schirra.The
museum occupies the WWII Hangars and Control Tower on Ford Island that
still bear the scars as our Nation\'s first aviation battlefield. The
Museum is a private non-profit organization. Regular hours following the
ceremony will be 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. daily.

For more information please call the Pacific Aviation Museum at
808-690-0169 or visit  <http://www.pacificaviationmuseum.org/>

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**USS *Oklahoma* Memorial Groundbreaking Ceremony**

**December 7, 2006, 12:30 p.m.**

**Ford Island, Pearl Harbor**

• If you are a Pearl Harbor Survivor who would like to attend this
ceremony and are not part of the National Pearl Harbor Survivors
Association convention, please contact the Navy Region Hawaii Protocol
Office, at 808-473-2206.

The USS *Oklahoma* Memorial Groundbreaking Ceremony will take place on
Ford Island in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7 at 12:30 p.m., immediately
following the Pacific Aviation Museum\'s Grand Opening. The Battleship
*Oklahoma* was berthed along Ford Island on Dec. 7, 1941, and suffered
the second greatest loss of life during the attack.

For more information please contact : Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard
Community Relations Manager, 808-473-8000 ext. 2579.

**New Pearl Harbor Survivors Project Website**

***New Website Invites the Nation to Rebuild the Day That Lives In
InFamy***

The recently launched Pearl Harbor Survivors Project has already drawn
thousands of viewers and contributors to its website
[www.pearlharborstories.org]{.underline}. Sponsored by the Pearl Harbor
Memorial Fund, the Pearl Harbor Survivors Project is an online community
centered around an interactive Web site,
[www.pearlharborstories.org]{.underline}, that allows visitors to share
the stories, photos or letters passed down by their fathers,
grandfathers, spouses and friends. By doing so they are creating a piece
of living history that serves as a lasting tribute to Pearl Harbor
Survivors and preserves history for future generations. Loved ones can
also record their stories by calling a toll-free number (1-866-PHSTORY).
Once recorded, the stories will be available in an audio file format so
that visitors to [www.pearlharborstories.org]{.underline} can listen to
or download the stories. Pearl Harbor Survivor Project Kiosks will be
set up at various Pearl Harbor 65th Anniversary event venues in
Honolulu.

For more information, visit
[www.pearlharborstories.org](http://www.pearlharborstories.org/) or call
1-866-PHSTORY

**TIPS FOR VISITING PEARL HARBOR HISTORIC SITES:**

• For security reasons, no bags are allowed including handbags,
backpacks, diaper bags and camera bags. No strollers with pockets and
compartments are allowed \-- basically anything that provides
concealment are not allowed. A bag storage facility located in the
parking lot will be available for a nominal fee. Please do not store
valuables in your car.

• Dress comfortably and appropriately (no swimsuits), and be prepared to
do a lot of walking. 

• Please expect delays for traffic and security checks.

• Please understand that all events are subject to change at short
notice due to security requirements.

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