Touring Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor, a history lesson and memorial service all in one

Touring Pearl Harbor

The USS Arizona Memorial, part of Pearl Harbor National Memorial, was built atop the USS Arizona battleship, sunk by the Japanese on Dec. 7, 1941.Susan Glaser, Cleveland.com

HONOLULU – Nearly 1.7 million people toured Pearl Harbor last year, making it one of Hawaii’s most-visited destinations.

But don’t call it a tourist attraction, said actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who narrates a powerful self-guided audio tour of the site.

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