HONOLULU — Seventy-five Colorado football players walked into a theater Wednesday morning with the swagger and lively chatter one would expect from a college football team.
Roughly 25 minutes later, the players exited from the Pearl Harbor visitor center auditorium with an almost palpable air of solemnity. As they took a ferry ride from the visitor center to the USS Arizona Memorial, players spoke in hushed tones about what they’d seen and what they were about to see at the memorial.
There, they saw the names on the wall of the 1,177 crew members who died in the attack.