2006 JHS Band Hawaii Trip


JHS Band Members and Parents Pose in front of the Dole Plantation



Our special guests on this trip were Vernon and Freddie Stone. Mr. Stone
and his wife Freddie live in Jonesboro. Their grandchildren, David and Jennifer,
are alumni of the Jonesboro High School Band.

Mr. Stone is a Pearl Harbor survivor and was assigned to the U.S.S. Vestal. The Vestal was a U.S.fleet repair vessel and was moored outboard of the battleship Arizona on the morning of 7 December 1941. During the attack, the Vestal was hit by two Japanese bombs and received additional damage from the force and heat of Arizona's explosion. Casting loose from the sunk and burning battleship at about 8:30 AM, Vestal moved up the harbor a short distance and anchored. However, one of the bomb hits caused her to flood aft, and the water could not be controlled in the ship's old hull. Accordingly, she hoisted her anchor and was beached on Aiea Shoal, in Pearl Harbor's northeastern corner. Vestal was repaired by mid-February 1942.

Mr. David Robinson, MacArthur Band Director, conducts the JHS Band at their
U.S.S. Missouri Concert.


JHS Band at the Battleship U.S.S. Missouri - Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

2006 JHS Band Hawaii Trip
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