Emperor Akihito, Emperor of Japan, lays a chrysanthemum wreath at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl Crater, Hawaii, July 15. Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko paid tribute to those interred at the cemetery in a ceremony attended by Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle, Navy Adm. Timothy Keating, U.S. Pacific Command commander and Pacific Air Forces commander, Gen. Howie Chandler. The ceremony also included a 21-gun salute, a joint flyover by U.S. Navy and Japan Self Defense Forces aircraft and the playing of "Taps." More than 50,000 service men and women are interred at the cemetery; about 13,000 died in World War II. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. LuCelia Ball)