Aloha from Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii

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This entry is primarily for the Martin/Doolittle grandchildren and Sarah Merriwether. Today is the first day since we left Los Angeles that you can stick a pin in your world map to show our actual location---a little speck of land in the Pacific Ocean. The next place for a pin will be Samoa, another tiny speck which is 5 days away. Honolulu is the site of Pearl Harbor. Your parents can tell you a lot more about Pearl Harbor, but it was where the Japanese navy attacked the anchored US naval fleet on the morning of December 7th, 1941. (Google) It was the beginning of World War II for the United States. I was only 11 years old then and Granny Lynne was 4!!! However, I remember it like it happened yesterday because I was listening to a Philadelphia Eagles football game on the radio (we didn?t have TV then) when the announcers interrupted their broadcast to tell about the attack on Pearl Harbor and that we were at war. My mother and father were upstairs taking a nap and I went up to wake them and tell them the news. Life changed for a lot of people that day and my favorite uncle, Harry Merriwether, gave his life in that conflict. Granny Lynne and I have been here before, so we are not going to the Pearl Harbor memorial, but rather we are going to look for a place to watch the Super Bowl. We hope you are all well and enjoying following our trip. Today?s photos are from our balcony in the harbor at Honolulu. You can see Granny Lynne doing her morning crossword puzzle. Loads of Love!! XXOOXX



Granddaddy and Granny Lynne


Please click on the links below for the tracking map, the Queen Victoria Bridge webcam and the Queen Victoria tracking map.

Chuck and Lynne's Satellite Tracking Map

Webcam on the Bridge of the Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria GPS Tracking Map

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Comments

[sue]

thank you
even us old folks can enjoy the lesson! love you...sue and jim