A memorial for Amelia
To Mr. John Del Rosario: What a great, unexpected surprise from you concerning Amelia Earhart. This year marks the 80th year of this important historical event for Saipan that happened in 1937. Amelia Earhart was a famous American woman pilot who attempted to circumnavigate the globe; however, her dream was never accomplished. She was brought to Saipan by the Japanese after her plane went down in the Pacific.
We, the local group (not a stateside group) wish to acknowledge the presence of Amelia Earhart on Saipan in 1937 and build a memorial for her, for the world to know that Saipan is where Amelia Earhart last lived. Peoples’ curiosity have been enhanced lately, all asking about the location of Saipan.
Building a memorial here to Amelia Earhart would be a gesture of appreciation to America from the people of the Northern Marianas for her accomplishments, i.e. aviation, in addition to the millions of dollars the CNMI is receiving every year from United States. And most of all, for the thousands of American lives lost during the bloody Battle of Saipan to save the Chamorro and Carolinian lives in 1944.
Marie SC. Castro
via email (AEMMC)
Ms. Castro: Earhart was a prisoner of war of Imperial Japan whose airplane wen5t down in Jaluit in the Marshalls. Is it your infinite wisdom that we build a memorial for all WWII prisoners of war?
I won’t deny her place in history, but she’s not a national heroin otherwise a memorial would have been built in Washington near the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials. Was a monument built in her honor in Atchinson, Kansas her birth place? Finally, what was her contribution to the indigenous people of these islands beyond being a POW?
Well worth the memorial!
That’s a wonderful idea! Woody Peard,
“The Amelia Earhart Society”.
Just a brief note here on Earhart and Noonan. They were never here. Right this moment, the National Geographic Society and TIGHAR (a group who recover aircrafts of historical significance) are in the Gilbert (Kiribas) island group. The Japanese, according to recent news reports, are saying that the Japanese Government neither saw the two Americans, nor executed them.The two groups of American searchers, along with their four Border Collie sniffers are hypothesizing what happened to the two aviators in 1937. And the photo of the pier at Jaluit in the Marshall Islands is an extract from a travelodge book published in Palau in 1935, according to a Japanese military history blogger, Kota Yamano in his July 9 post. The book is in the National Diet Library, Japan’s national library, so says The Guardian newswriter Mike Greshko. The ship at the Jaluit pier is the military vessel Koshu Maru. A surviving crewmember, telegraph operator Lt. Sachinao Kouzu said the vessel did not transport any American to Saipan. Supposedly, the Koshu Maru was the vessel to have transported the two Americans to Saipan from Jaluit. All conjectures. just to be short. Thank you. The newspapers are The Guardian of Manchester, England, and The Daily Beast, now absorbed by Newsweek. Just do a little bit more research, Ms. Castro.