Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan, Sept. 17, 2004: Kadena Panthers junior cheerleader Stacey Ware goes airborne during a stunt during halftime activities in Okinawa Activities Council season-opening football game at Kadena High School.
Graduation ceremonies have begun at Defense Department high schools across the Pacific, where students at the home of U.S. Army Japan were the first to pick up their diplomas.
The Far East Drama festival, which DODEA-Pacific has sponsored since the mid-1980s, returned for its first in-person incarnation on Monday, after it was canceled in 2020 and done virtually the past two years, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.