Hideaki Sakihama, 18th Wing Public Affairs community relations specialist, reads to 90 visitors from a monument referring to Japan's surrender at Kadena Air Base, Japan, July 23. The locals are from the Okinawa Prefectural Disabled Veterans Association visiting war-related sites such as the Peace Garden and an old aircraft hanger. The group is unique as they served in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Battle of Okinawa, sustained injuries in the war, and have been receiving military pensions from the Government of Japan. They were not directly deployed to Okinawa during the war, but drafted from here to serve in the Army. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Rey Ramon)