An Okinawa resident takes a break from clearing weeds in an abandoned water pump house during the annual cleaning of the Ubu-gah Spring August 10 aboard Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. According to Seiichi Miyagi, a local community leader and former resident of the village, the spring was used as sacred water source for the previous surrounding village before World War II. The spring was a place where people came to pray to their ancestors, retrieve drinking water and bathe in the natural springs.

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