Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Hot! Maui Participates In Pearl Harbor Read Aloud Event Maui Now

A+ web page coordinator, Cheyenne Branch, reads in order to college students during Pomaikai Elementary. Courtesy photo.

By Wendy Osher

More than 6,000 school-age children across Hawai when i took part in within a simultaneous reading out loud application of which devoted to that fantastic magnitude associated with December 7th, 1941.

The occasion was placed on the 71st wedding anniversary from the attack on Pearl Harbor along with has been hosted through the National Park Service plus Pacific Historic Parks.

Here on Maui, above 130 serious and also born again beginners college individuals took part in throughout that first-of-its-kind event. This involved students from Pomaikai, Lihikai, Haiku, and Kihei regular schools. Kilohana Elementary School on Molokai joined throughout since well.

Statewide, scholar members included individuals enrolled within after-school care programs been able by the Department involving Education, Kama aina Kids, YMCA of Honolulu, YMCA connected with Maui, Island regarding Hawaii YMCA, Dreamco and Moiliilii Community Center.

The award-winning children vertisements ebook entitled, Pearl Harbor Warriors: The Bugler, The Pilot, The Friendship, has been selected and learn aloud to the program.

Through the book, young people learned about the genuine lifetime adventure of the less likely a friendly relationship between your later Pearl Harbor survivor Richard Fiske and Japanese killer pilot Zenji Abe.

Pearl Harbor Warriors is a history regarding peace and forgiveness and also the way these men, who seem to were when enemies of war, overrode his or her hatred in addition to worry for just one another.

This is usually great opportunity for the National Park Service as well as Pacific Historic Parks to share using our students, said Jason Justus, Maui Family YMCA Senior Program Director.

This encounter will probably coloration a graphic around that mind connected with our learners on Maui, that won't experienced the method to go to this Memorial at Pearl Harbor to be able to find out more on this kind of traditional event. Through this story, our students might also realize that predators could become friends and share the end intention to sending tranquility to help upcoming generations.

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