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June 6, 2008
Dear President George Bush
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Aloha from Hawaii,
Please consider, under the American Antiquities Act of 1906, which
you have cited in your May 28 Memo, to add Ewa Marine Corps Air Field
to the List of National Monuments administered by the National Park Service.
Ewa Field has been completely ignored, due to series of events, yet was
the very first location on Oahu to be attacked, and sustained a nearly
continuous two hour strafing attack by Imperial Japanese carrier planes do
to the fact that it was the rotation, or gathering place for the planes as they
completed their bombing runs. A number of Marines, and Civilians, were
Killed or wounded in this fierce, opening battle of the Pacific War.
Unlike Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, Hickam Field, etc., there has been
virtually NO historic military battlefield study done by any branch of the
U.S. government on this site. It is no doubt hard to believe that a battlefield
in urban Honolulu, that is now close to being bulldozed as of July 1, 2008,
was a place where U.S. Marines died on U.S. soil, yet no marker or any
significant recognition of this historic battlefield exists AT ALL on this
actual site. It is really astonishing, but true!
Please see our website for details. We need the help of the President to
take action and direct the Department of Interior to include Ewa Marine
Corps Field on a list of sites to be nominated to the list of National
Historic Places and that it be surveyed to become a World War II
Pacific Battlefield Monument.
Sincerely,
John Bond,
SAVE EWA FIELD
WWW.December7.Com
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