We went to the Veterans' Day ceremony at the Hanapepe Veterans Cemetery today at 11 am (on the 11th day of the 11th month...) It was a very beautiful ceremony attended by some of the more prestigious people in Kauai ;-) The Skipper of our base, the mayor of Kauai, and a newly elected congresswoman all spoke, along with a representative from the governor's office.
For those of you who don't know, each island in Hawaii is actually a county and each island is run by a "mayor" who is basically like the governor of the island. The Kauai mayor is a former Miami Dolphins football player (so he's a very big guy!) but he's very friendly and really tries to attend lots of events on the island. He was also one of the speakers at the Navy Ball, and he sang the Hawaiian State song at the Ball (talk about a triple threat!) The Hawaiians love their state song and it is sung right after the National Anthem at every gathering.
It was a beautiful ceremony, and even though it was a long day of sitting for Noah (only having a small break from church to the ceremony) I'm glad we got to attend! Plus, I love getting to see Ely in his summer whites, it's probably mu favorite uniform :-D
Here are a few pictures from my phone. I have a few more of the mayor talking and some of the awesome wreaths they had for the graves, but those photos are on my regular camera so I don't have them uploaded yet.
Noah with some of the neighbor girls. I'm not sure why Cami was trying to hold Noah's face in the picture...and one of the other girls was trying to put her head on Noah's head! He's quite the ladies' man ;-)
LOVE this uniform :-)
He never wants to smile when we are trying to take a family photo, but he has no problem smiling when he's surrounded by a bunch of girls!
I love this photo! It looks very sweet and moving, right? However, the insider story is that Noah had actually taken this flag off of the grave and was trying to wave it around :-S
So this is actually a photo of Noah having to put the flag back on the grave!
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