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19-04-2025
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World War II newsman Ernie Pyle remembered at Punchbowl
COURTESY U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES Ernie Pyle and sailors listen to war reports aboard USS Charles Carroll while en route to Okinawa. 1 /5 COURTESY U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES Ernie Pyle and sailors listen to war reports aboard USS Charles Carroll while en route to Okinawa. JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @ Chaplin Hurst of the Pacific Air Forces paused in front of Ernie Pyle's grave site. The Ernie Pyle Legacy Foundation put on the service at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl. 2 /5 JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @ Chaplin Hurst of the Pacific Air Forces paused in front of Ernie Pyle's grave site. The Ernie Pyle Legacy Foundation put on the service at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl. JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @ The Color Guard posted the colors during the Ernie Pyle 80th Anniversary Memorial. 3 /5 JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @ The Color Guard posted the colors during the Ernie Pyle 80th Anniversary Memorial. JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @ Jerry Maschino, right, executive director of the Ernie Pyle Legacy Foundation, spoke Friday with Suzanne Vares-Lum, director of the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, and City Council member Tyler Dos-Santos Tam during the cemetery. The memorial takes place every five years. 4 /5 JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @ Jerry Maschino, right, executive director of the Ernie Pyle Legacy Foundation, spoke Friday with Suzanne Vares-Lum, director of the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, and City Council member Tyler Dos-Santos Tam during the cemetery. The memorial takes place every five years. JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @ Anne Harpham, former senior editor of The Honolulu Advertiser, paused Friday in front of the Ernie Pyle Memorial Rock. 5 /5 JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @ Anne Harpham, former senior editor of The Honolulu Advertiser, paused Friday in front of the Ernie Pyle Memorial Rock. COURTESY U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES Ernie Pyle and sailors listen to war reports aboard USS Charles Carroll while en route to Okinawa. JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @ Chaplin Hurst of the Pacific Air Forces paused in front of Ernie Pyle's grave site. The Ernie Pyle Legacy Foundation put on the service at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl. JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @ The Color Guard posted the colors during the Ernie Pyle 80th Anniversary Memorial. JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @ Jerry Maschino, right, executive director of the Ernie Pyle Legacy Foundation, spoke Friday with Suzanne Vares-Lum, director of the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, and City Council member Tyler Dos-Santos Tam during the cemetery. The memorial takes place every five years. JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @ Anne Harpham, former senior editor of The Honolulu Advertiser, paused Friday in front of the Ernie Pyle Memorial Rock. RELATED PHOTO GALLERY The legendary life and career of newsman Ernie Pyle was celebrated Friday at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Punchbowl Crater, the famed war correspondent's final resting place. The Ernie Pyle Legacy Foundation put on the ceremony, which marked the 80th anniversary of his death during the Battle of Okinawa. Another ceremony was held on the island of Iejima, where a single bullet fired by a Japanese soldier struck Pyle in the head and killed him. The ceremony brought together members of Pyle's extended family, veterans, educators, former war correspondents and community members who wanted to pay tribute to Pyle, who was best known for his human-interest reporting during the Great Depression and the intimate accounts of common service members during World War II. Retired Army Maj. Gen. Suzanne Vares-Lum, an alum of University of Hawaii's journalism and ROTC programs, said she first encountered Pyle's writing as a student at UH, where some of her instructors were former war correspondents as well. She said Pyle's work left a profound impact on her. 'He was never the loudest man in the room, but he spoke with a voice that carried across oceans, across battlefields and across generations, ' Vares-Lum said. 'He chose to stand alongside the average soldier, the quiet heroes, rather than chasing the spotlight of generals and war rooms. He wrote from foxholes, not balconies. From bombed-out towns, not press briefings. His style was simple and spare, but it cut deep. It wasn't about grandeur ; it was about truth.' The tradition of commemorating Pyle's death at Punchbowl began in 1949, the year his remains were repatriated from Okinawa and interred at the cemetery. Buck Buchwach, then-editor of The Honolulu Advertiser, wrote and delivered the eulogy. Don 't miss out on what 's happening ! Stay in touch with breaking news, as it happens, conveniently in your email inbox. It 's FREE ! Email 28141 Sign Up By clicking to sign up, you agree to Star-Advertiser 's and Google 's and. This form is protected by reCAPTCHA. Every five years, people would gather again at the ceremony, and Buchwach would read from that first eulogy until his own death in 1989. Buchwach's wife, Margaret, tried to keep the tradition alive, but by the end of the 1990s, it had faded. But in 2013, members of Pyle's extended family established the Ernie Pyle Legacy Foundation, and in 2015 the foundation helped revive the tradition. Steve Maschino, a cousin of Pyle who sits on the foundation's board, told attendees that the foundation hopes to 'promote Ernie's style of writing with that human exercise story, versus the raw news today that sometimes can seem void of the human side.' Marine veteran Jason Seal, senior vice commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Hawaii, read Buchwach's eulogy, which proclaimed that Pyle 'was a little guy who loved the little guy, and he brought the front to the front door of every American home. His fame lies above all in the integrity of what he wrote. His byline meant truth.' Beverly Keever, who worked as a correspondent in Vietnam covering the war for seven years and later became a UH journalism instructor, said remembering Pyle's work is important today. 'The press today is under such unprecedented attacks of a new kind, new kind of bullets, ' Keever said. 'This is a really special occasion, 80 years after his death.' Pyle was an only child raised on a farm in Indiana, and soon decided farming wasn't for him. He enlisted in the Navy during World War I, but the fighting ended before he finished training. He pursued journalism and enjoyed a long career with stints as a beat reporter, columnist and editor. In the 1930s, feeling trapped behind a desk, he hit the road with his wife and wrote stories about the places they went and people they met. His travels took him from the heart of the Great Plains Dust Bowl to Alaska, South America and even to Hawaii, where he wrote about the Hansen's disease colony at Kalaupapa. When war broke out in Europe, he traveled to London to write about Germany's relentless bombing of the British Isles. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he began reporting on the front lines with U.S. troops, taking him to North Africa, Europe and eventually bringing him back to Hawaii and the Pacific. His last assignment was with the 77th Infantry Division on Iejima. 'His words brought the islands to the Main Street America, ' Vares-Lum said. 'Americans in Kansas, New York and Georgia could feel the breeze of a Waikiki, could understand the struggles on Guam, Tarawa, Okinawa, and we here in Hawaii remember him as one who walked among us, who listened, who cared and who understood. … He walked into danger with a notepad. He reminds us to speak the truth, even when it's hard.'
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12-04-2025
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80th anniversary of kamikaze attack on USS Missouri emphasizes reconciliation
KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @ Carey Callaghan, grandson of the USS Missouri's Capt. William Callaghan, delivers a keynote address to attendees at a ceremony on Friday honoring the 80th anniversary of the kamikaze attack on the ship and the pilot's burial at sea. 1 /6 KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @ Carey Callaghan, grandson of the USS Missouri's Capt. William Callaghan, delivers a keynote address to attendees at a ceremony on Friday honoring the 80th anniversary of the kamikaze attack on the ship and the pilot's burial at sea. U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES Sailors prepare a burial at sea for the remains of a Japanese pilot whose plane hit the USS Missouri on April 11, 1945. 2 /6 U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES Sailors prepare a burial at sea for the remains of a Japanese pilot whose plane hit the USS Missouri on April 11, 1945. Courtesy U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command The USS Missouri at the moment it was about to be hit by a Japanese A6M Zero Kamikaze while operating off Okinawa on April 11, 1945. The plane hit the ship's side below the main deck, causing minor damage and no casualties aboard the battleship. A 40mm quad gun mount's crew is in action in the lower foreground. 3 /6 Courtesy U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command The USS Missouri at the moment it was about to be hit by a Japanese A6M Zero Kamikaze while operating off Okinawa on April 11, 1945. The plane hit the ship's side below the main deck, causing minor damage and no casualties aboard the battleship. A 40mm quad gun mount's crew is in action in the lower foreground. KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @ Japan's Hawaii Consul General Yoshinori Kodama pays his respects at a ceremony aboard the USS Missoui on Friday honoring the 80th anniversary of the kamikaze attack on the ship and the pilot's burial at sea. 4 /6 KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @ Japan's Hawaii Consul General Yoshinori Kodama pays his respects at a ceremony aboard the USS Missoui on Friday honoring the 80th anniversary of the kamikaze attack on the ship and the pilot's burial at sea. KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @ Marines give a seven gun salute at a ceremony on Friday honoring the 80th anniversary of the kamikaze attack on the USS Missouri and the pilot's burial at sea. 5 /6 KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @ Marines give a seven gun salute at a ceremony on Friday honoring the 80th anniversary of the kamikaze attack on the USS Missouri and the pilot's burial at sea. KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @ Japan Coast Guard Cmdr. Yuichi Kajiya and his son drop flower pedals off the side of the USS Missoui during a ceremony Friday honoring the 80th anniversary of the kamikaze attack on the ship and the pilot's burial at sea. 6 /6 KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @ Japan Coast Guard Cmdr. Yuichi Kajiya and his son drop flower pedals off the side of the USS Missoui during a ceremony Friday honoring the 80th anniversary of the kamikaze attack on the ship and the pilot's burial at sea. KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @ Carey Callaghan, grandson of the USS Missouri's Capt. William Callaghan, delivers a keynote address to attendees at a ceremony on Friday honoring the 80th anniversary of the kamikaze attack on the ship and the pilot's burial at sea. U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES Sailors prepare a burial at sea for the remains of a Japanese pilot whose plane hit the USS Missouri on April 11, 1945. Courtesy U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command The USS Missouri at the moment it was about to be hit by a Japanese A6M Zero Kamikaze while operating off Okinawa on April 11, 1945. The plane hit the ship's side below the main deck, causing minor damage and no casualties aboard the battleship. A 40mm quad gun mount's crew is in action in the lower foreground. KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @ Japan's Hawaii Consul General Yoshinori Kodama pays his respects at a ceremony aboard the USS Missoui on Friday honoring the 80th anniversary of the kamikaze attack on the ship and the pilot's burial at sea. KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @ Marines give a seven gun salute at a ceremony on Friday honoring the 80th anniversary of the kamikaze attack on the USS Missouri and the pilot's burial at sea. KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @ Japan Coast Guard Cmdr. Yuichi Kajiya and his son drop flower pedals off the side of the USS Missoui during a ceremony Friday honoring the 80th anniversary of the kamikaze attack on the ship and the pilot's burial at sea. On April 11, 1945, Flight Petty Officer 2nd Class Setsuo Ishino, age 19, took off from Kanoya Air Base in Japan's Kago shima prefecture. He was piloting a Zero fighter carrying a 500-kilogram bomb with the mission of carrying out a kamikaze attack on American forces. Ultimately, his plane struck the USS Missouri, plowing into its starboard side a little below the level of the main deck. Part of the plane was thrown onto the main deck in the crash while the rest of the wreckage fell into the water. Part of the plane, and Ishino's body, were thrown onto the Missouri's main deck. The attack took place in the last stretch of a bitter war between America and Japan, and hatred between the two sides ran deep. But the Missouri's commander, then Capt. William Callaghan, ordered that the young Japanese pilot be given a proper burial at sea in accordance with naval tradition. American sailors sewed a Japanese flag and draped Ishino's remains with it as they committed him to the deep. On Friday the USS Missouri Memorial Association marked the 80th anniversary of the event with a ceremony on the ship that brought Callaghan's grandchildren and great-grandchildren to Hawaii along with dignitaries from Japan. Mike Carr, president and CEO of the Missouri Memorial Association, said that after the burial 'the crew of the USS Missouri returned to their stations, the battle still raging around them, but all carried with them in the memory of that day, a reminder that even in war there can be moments of grace, and that honor is not bound by the lines drawn between nations.' Months after the attack, Japanese Emperor Hirohito would sign Japan's surrender on the deck of that very ship. Over time, word of Callaghan's show of respect to a fallen kamikaze pilot would spread, helping the two countries overcome hatred as they sought peace and worked to rebuild. Don 't miss out on what 's happening ! Stay in touch with breaking news, as it happens, conveniently in your email inbox. It 's FREE ! Email 28141 Sign Up By clicking to sign up, you agree to Star-Advertiser 's and Google 's and. This form is protected by reCAPTCHA. Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi said, 'Today, as we gather here, once enemies, now allies, we are reminded of how far we have come. This Moment of Remembrance stands as a testament to the power of reconciliation and the strength of peace. With the devastation of that day, Captain William Callaghan made an extraordinary decision, one that would echo through history.' 'Captain Callahan chose to respond not with hatred, but with honor and respect, ' Blangiardi added. 'This decision stands as a powerful reminder that even in the darkest moments of conflict, our shared humanity remains. That act of compassion continues to teach us that dignity and respect are not weakened by war ; they are strengthened through understanding and forgiveness.' In a keynote delivered by Callaghan's grandson Carey Callaghan, he said of his grandfather that 'his decision—controversial at the time, and maybe even today—was a humble one rooted in empathy, a sense of dignity and a vision of the future that was a part of who he was every day. … If this act of kindness and humanity is his enduring legacy, it is a good one.' In September, dignitaries will again gather on the deck of the 'Mighty Mo ' to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, which is—to date—still the most destructive conflict in human history. That anniversary approaches at a time where the world is again steeped in conflict, with wars raging in Ukraine and the Middle East and tensions once again boiling in the Pacific—this time between America and its allies on one side and China on the other. Hiroyuji Nuruki, mayor of the Japanese city of Minami kyushu in Kagoshima prefecture, said that 'to build a peaceful world, we must examine, reflect on and share the history of past wars from multiple perspectives. We must also ensure that inhumane tragedies, like the kamikaze attack, never occur again by spreading this message worldwide.'
