The Bannon family had just arrived in Hawaii, and they weren’t at the beach, looking for sea turtles or heading to a luau. They were at Pearl Harbor on a sunny September day.
“This was the first thing I wanted Evie to see,” said James Bannon. Both he and his wife, Becca, are Navy veterans, “and visiting here is an important history lesson,” he said.
Pearl Harbor, with over 1.8 million visitors annually is the top tourist attraction in Hawaii, but it can be difficult for kids to understand and appreciate, acknowledges K. David Kilton, the chief of interpretation at Pearl Harbor National Monument, especially as so many of those who survived the attack on Dec. 7, 1941, are no longer alive to tell their stories. “We have a lot of recorded interviews, and we are working on doing a film series,” Kilton said….