Since last year a friend returned a copy of a picture we gave them years ago, the original of this photo was lost in the house fire, including the negative.

From a trip we made to Hawaii to visit Donie’s fathers grave in the veterans grave site in Maui and on this trip we were finally able to get a seat on the boat out to the Arizona Memorial.
The little boy was just standing there gazing at the wall when I came up and shot this picture.   Was he looking for one name on that wall?   An uncle, his grandfather;  someone?

My paternal grandfather had been a Navy Man in WWI, re-enlisted in WWII and passed away soon after the end of the war from a service related illness.  I never met him.  I don’t even know where his grave is and now there is no one alive to ask.

God Bless Them All.