Once in awhile-now and again-this is us

then we went to wheeler field, where the schofield barracks are located. at this base we got to go in their museum. by chance where the archive office is located. we didn’t find any information about my father other than one of the  pictures I have of him was definitely taken there. you can see the same barracks in the background.  another memorable moment. (I didn’t take a picture of the original yet)

the barracks

we ate a buffet lunch at the cafeteria with all the military around us. you have to admire a man in a uniform. I wonder if my father ate there too?

we stopped to take a picture.

a plane used in the war. notice the bullet holes

next was the punchbowl. a very famous cemetery located in a volcanic crater. we couldn’t get out of the van here.  the guide drove very slowly so we could take pictures. they don’t have headstones because the ground shifts too much and was causing havoc keeping them up.

driving in

driving out

we drove by the capitol next and even though it wasn’t a scheduled stop, the guide did stop and let us get off and he took our picture. we had explained our story and he obliged because we didn’t know if we would make it back, but we took a trolley back and got to go inside and take pictures then.

I didn’t get a good picture of the iolani palace

we saw so many other sights that were impossible to take pictures from a moving van. we drove through a lot of the surrounding cities of Honolulu. we ended the tour at the home of the brave museum. actually years of artifacts collected by the family, they wanted to share them with everyone.so they put them all in one place and opened it to the public last year. they’ve been in the business 15 years I think he said. a lot of military take the tour and end up giving them so much stuff. incredible stuff.  fascinating stuff.

one of the artifacts

the guide we had was one of three children. who left to go to college in Colorado. he was so impressed with all the breweries, when he came home he talked his father into a venture of having one of their own. so they sell their ‘home of the brave’ beer upstairs. delicious. a great way to end the tour.

“ahhhhh”