10th anniversary memorial services
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “In Loving Memory of Those We Lost: A September to Remember- Tsunami of 2009” was the theme of the government sponsored 10th anniversary memorial service of the 2009 tsunami last Saturday morning at the Veterans Memorial Center malae, where more than 300 mourners...

![Eleven-year-old Malakai, posing for Samoa News with a portrait of his mother, Sabrina Seva’aetasi, one of the 34 people who died in the Sept. 29, 2009 tsunami. Malakai was only a few months old at the time. He was among those who attended last Saturday’s memorial service organized by the Rotary Club of Pago Pago and Hawaiian Airlines at Lions Park, on the 10th year anniversary of the deadly earthquake/tsunami. [photo: FS] Eleven-year-old Malakai, posing for Samoa News with a portrait of his mother, Sabrina Seva’aetasi](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/img_3477.jpg?itok=-jHfNjAt)