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MCAS Beaufort Holds Bowling Marine Corps Community Service staff interact with guests at the
front table of the Pink Bowling Night at Marine Corps Recruit Depot
Night for Breast Cancer Parris Island Bowling Center Oct. 25. The staff gave out door prizes
and interacted with guests throughout the night. The event was one
Awareness Month
of two for breast cancer awareness month.
A“Pink Bowling Night” was held at the Marine Corps Recruit
Depot Parris Island Bowling Center at MCAS Beaufort
in South Carolina.

“I really go all out for this event,” said Christine Wilden-
thaler, the recreation management supervisor for Marine Corps
Community Services (MCCS) South Carolina. “All the tables
have pink tablecloths. The bowling pins are all pink and when
someone rolls a strike or hits a certain pink pin, they win a
prize. There are pink streamers hanging from the ceiling and
the tables each have a pink table ornament I made myself.”

This is the fourth year for the event. “I can’t believe how
much notoriety and support this event gets now,” Wildenthaler
said. “This event started off so small four years ago and last
year we exceeded 150 attendees. It is really encouraging to
see everyone supporting breast cancer awareness and MCCS.”

Dinner Honors Lives Lost, Begun During Dec. 7 Attacks

Hundreds of U.S. airmen, spouses and friends joined the honor and respect for how Dec. 7 altered our nation forever.
Hickam Historical Society at the Hickam Historic Of- Among the guests were David Burpee and Stan Loer, both
ficer’s Club for a remembrance dinner, Dec. 6, 2016, honoring
10 survivors and those lost during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack born Dec. 7, 1941, just after the attacks.
on Hickam field. Loer said coming back to celebrate both their 75th birth-

The dinner, part of an island-wide joint commemoration days and the anniversary is surreal. “I don’t even know how
of the 75th anniversary of the attacks on Oahu, centered on to explain it. For years growing up it was hard to connect with
the theme “Honor our Heroes.” what happened here. My recollection of everything is third-
hand. But being here now, even 75 years later, it’s a feeling
“We value the warriors we lost here, and tonight we gather I can hardly explain.”
to celebrate under the moonlit sky and swaying palm trees,
much like they did right here, on this lanai, on Dec. 6, 1941,” Burpee, who retired as a U.S. Army colonel, said for him
said Jessie Higa, the society’s co-founder. “Tomorrow will be the night is about remembrance. “The real significance is
different. It will be that somber moment because Dec. 7 is not about what happened here 75 years ago. It’s really an honor
just about honoring our survivors, it’s to remember the dead.” to remember the people and the sacrifices that occurred here.”

In her comments, Higa asked each attendee to carry the The evening included an era-specific show by the USO
torch of remembrance and pass onto the next generation the Show Troupe who performed a number of songs and dances
from the early 1940s.

U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Mark Dillon (left), Pacific Air Forces vice The USO Show Troupe performs for dinner guests during a Dec.
commander, and Clifford McFarland (right), Dec. 7 attacks survivor, 7 rememberance dinner, Dec. 6, 2016, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-
enjoy their meals during a remembrance dinner, Dec. 6, 2016, Joint Hickam, Hawaii. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. James Stewart)
Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. The dinner was part of a week-
long celebration commemorating the 75th anniversary of the attacks 11
on Pearl Harbor, Hickam Field and Oahu. (U.S. Air Force photo by

Tech. Sgt. James Stewart)
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