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Families from across Okinawa have

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recently gathered on Katina to pay

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respects to their ancestors . Every

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year , the families visit Kanas

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munition storage area in order to visit

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their family shrines for seme or shimmy

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in Okinawa . Personally , I feel like

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the tomb clean up is just a good way

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for us to bond with the local Okinawans

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here and show , we appreciate them

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letting us stay here and also just kind

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of embraces their culture . It's a way

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for our airmen and them to like get

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together and just kinda see how

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everything works . The yearly

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tradition which takes place in April

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involves bringing offerings , sending

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prayers and cleaning the tomb itself .

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I think this is like kind of unique how

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this bond dump is so old . It has all

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this like historical sites kind of like

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this , how we have a couple of shrines

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here and everything . And now we're

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still able to let the locals come on

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participate and you know , still do

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their cultural traditions and such

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reporting from Kara Air Base , Japan .

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Um I want to see