National Park Service Rangers stand at attention on the USS Arizona Memorial, December 7, 2010, the 69th Anniversary of that fateful day December 7, 1941.

At the homecoming Dec. 18, 2010 of USS Pearl Harbor (LSD-52), Pearl Harbor Survivor (far right) John Morrill gives a high five to Gabriel Denius, son of Commander Homer R. Denius III. The Pearl Harbor Survivors of San Diego (center right) Bob Raffato and (center) Jesse Thompson, attended the ship's commission ceremony on May 30, 1998.

After weeks of rain San Clemente, California resident take to the pier to enjoy the sunshine, January 2011.

Dec. 2010, Returning home from a 7 month deployment the USS Dubuque (LPD 8) arrives in San Diego, California with hundreds of family and friends waiting. The USS Dubuque has completed it's final deployment, ending 43 years of commission service with the US Navy.

USS Dubuque and the embarked 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit are returning from a regularly-scheduled seven-month deployment where they conducted operations in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, Red Sea, Arabian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and the Philippine Sea.

Alex Galka steps into the new Sea Life Carlsbad Aquarium, Southern California.

Laura and Alex Galka watch as scuba divers and robots made out of logos feed the sharks at the Sea Life Carlsbad Aquarium, Southern California.

(Left) Hope Boulanger, 6, of San Clemente, California plays with her balloon at the 2010 F.A.M. Hunger Walk. By herself, Hope raised $100 for this event. F.A.M. is a S. Orange County non-profit organization that has been providing temporary assistance to more than 600 families. (Right) Local OC residents take the first steps of the 2010 F.A.M. Hunger Walk.

Chief Staff Officer, Capt. Lawrence Scruggs, USN pauses for a moment of silence at the sunset interment burial service for USS Utah Survivor, David P. Smith, December 6, 2010. Along with the USS Arizona, the USS Utah is the only other battleship that still rests in Pearl Harbor since that fateful day on December 7, 1941.

USS Arizona Memorial. General Gary L. North, Commander Pacific Air Forces PACAF (left) and Admiral Patrick M. Walsh, Commander US Pacific Fleet USN (center right) and their wives toss ceremonial flowers into the water symbolizing the 1,177 USS Arizona crewmen who lost their lives on December 7, 1941.

A traffic electrical line and signal at the I-70 intersection on 6th. St., Glenwood Springs, CO, were pulled down by an Apeiron utility contractor's truck boom.

A young family celebrates Christmas break by walking the jagged shore rocks of Brenton Cove, Rhode Island, Dec. 27, 2009.

Tourists take a moment to enjoy the fish pond at Mission San Juan Capistrano, California, February 2011.

1st Lt. Nathan Stickel, Iraq Veteran and Civil Air Patrol volunteer, places wreaths at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (also Punchbowl National Cemetery), Honolulu, Hawaii, for Wreaths Across America. This particular grave site for the Unknown Soldier, was the first grave site placed in the cemetery built in 1948.

(Left) Diane DeFord, developer of the Colorado Mountain College Learning Lab is preparing local Hispanic students for their upcoming GED and US Citizenship tests. (Right) Students joke during a class break. The Learning Lab was developed to give educational opportunity to both legal and illegal aliens.

A Russian family celebrating their 5 year US Citizenship anniversary walks through the Registry Room of Ellis Island, NY. By the early 1900's, anywhere between 5,000-11,000 immigrants passed through these doors each day.

(Left) Statue of Liberty, July 2010. At the time of completion in 1886 the Statue of Liberty was the tallest structure in New York City and the tallest statue in the world. (Right) Tourists wait in line to pay for the self-guided statue tour.

High Country RSVP senior volunteers help clean the lunch tables of the Lucy Huntley Senior Center in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. The Senior Center operates on minimal funding and is often on the budget chopping block.

(Left) A mother and daughter view the Safe Motherhood Quilt developed by Ina May Gaskin at Amensty International's 2010 Maternal Health event in NYC. The quilt honors woman from all around the US who have died from preventable maternal diseases. (Right) An Amnesty volunteer helps to answer questions about the campaign to end maternal mortality in the US.