Over 2000 guests and 54 other Pearl Harbor Survivors joined this 89 years young American Hero, Bugler Allen Bodenlos, to remember and honor those who paid the ultimate sacrifice to protect the freedoms we are privileged to have as Americans.

After the commemoration ceremony Al spent a great amount of time volunteering, taking pictures with admirers and signing autographs…..as he so often does. Funny thing is, he lives in San Diego and makes the trip to Hawaii twice a year to pay his respects - and he does it with his own money.

During this past visit Al explained that there were only 55 survivors at the ceremony this year. "We’re disappearing and I’m going to be 90 my next birthday." Being the joker he is, he said he used to subtract a few years when asked his age but said, "I’m going to be 90, so who cares, I’m 90!"

Al has become a great friend to so many over the past few years. He has told his story to thousands of students that have visited the Islands of Aloha. He said it was a shame we didn’t have a band for him to talk to and direct a song or two on this special day! When asked if we worked with our clients to get one here to honor him and all the others, would he be interested? He immediately said, "I would be honored!"

Director Emeritus John Riggle of Kamehameha School and the Hawaii All State Marching Band has agreed to help coordinate the local effort and would like enlist you and your band members to join together in honoring Pearl Harbor Survivor Bugler Allen Bodenlos and all military personnel that have served our great Country in a mass performance of the Star-Spangled Banner, America The Beautiful and the Armed Forces Salute on: