U.S., Japan offer respect to USS Arizona in Blackened Canteen ceremony

Bourbon whiskey pours from a damaged canteen the over the USS Arizona Memorial at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, during the Blackened Canteen reconciliation ceremony, Dec. 6, 2016. The canteen used in this ceremony originally belonged to the crew of a B-29 Superfortress that crashed in Japan during WWII and is now used in a reconciliatory ceremonies both in Hawaii and Japan for those lost in the war. For the Japanese, the offering of American bourbon to the servicemembers lost in the attacks on Pearl Harbor and Oahu is considered a highly respectful gesture meant to represent peace and reconciliation between the U.S. and Japan. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Bryan Andrews)

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