Year in Review 2018_10

Photo taken at the Navy’s 243rd Birthday Cake cutting ceremony on Friday 12 OCT 2018, at Daniel K. Inouye, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

RADM Pete A. Gumataotao, USN (Ret), Director, Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

Mr. Leonard Fong US Navy SeaBee World War II Veteran of the Battle of Iwo Jima, Mr. Kenneth Fong, Brother of Leonard Fong, LCDR Jim Hickerson (US Navy, Ret.), Vietnam Veteran, former POW, Mrs. Hickerson, Mr. Donovan A. Lazarus, CDR, AmVets Hawaii, and Ron Lam, CDR, Ewa Battlefield

96-Yr-old World War II Veteran and AmVets member, Mr. Kenneth Fong had the honor to cut the birthday cake has the oldest Sailor at the ceremony.

Keynote address: LCDR Hickerson shared his story from being shot down over Vietnam on 22 Dec 1967, to returning home.

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