HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Each year, thousands flock to Ala Moana Beach on Memorial Day for the annual Shinnyo Lantern Floating to remember loved ones who are no longer with us.
Army Spc. Kevin Wessel of Maui will be among the thousands remembered at this year’s event. He was killed more than 20 years ago in Baghdad when a car bomb detonated while he was out on patrol.
His dad, Paul Wessel, said, “He was 20 years old when we lost him, but he had been in the country, in Iraq, for about four months, just slightly shy of four months, when they encountered — the Army calls it a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device, which basically is a suicide car bomb.”…