Renewal at the Place of Black Tears: Uss Arizonal Memorial Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Renewal at the Place of Black Tears: Uss Arizonal Memorial Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by Kaufman, Jerome A.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780983990888.

An invitation to experience the Pearl Harbor Story as never before. Seventy years after Japans devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, Renewal at the Place of Black Tears explores Hawaiis most visited public attraction in a whole new way. The place is the USS Arizona Memorial. The black tears are the oil droplets surfacing from the sunken USS Arizona. Renewal is the story inspired by three unifying strands from the memorial weaved together: (1) the Tree of Life, a universal symbol of renewal, designed into the steel and concrete structure of the memorial, (2) the words and deeds of Zenji Abe, former Japanese diver-bomber pilot and Richard Fiske, former Marine bugler on the USS West Virginia, former enemy combatants at Pearl Harbor who became friends in the later years of their lives at the memorial, and (3), a striking oil-on-water Tree of Life image photographed at the memorial by the author. Prepare to discover moving words from yesterday and vibrant pictures from today, blended through the healing lens of renewal and reconciliation.