Eric and I spent eleven days in Hawaii. I'll start with our visit to the USS Arizona National Memorial in Honolulu.
This Memorial is the tomb of over 900 Seamen and Marines that died as this ship was bombed and sunk by the Japanese Imperial Air Force attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7. 1941.
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The Memorial was built
atop the destroyed
The USS Arizona was one of two sunken Navy Ships. The USS Oklahoma was raised and stripped for parts. Seventeen other Ships were damaged.
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It was salvaged from the
sunken Ship & is dedicated
to the men who died aboard
the destroyed Ship after
the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Our boat docks at the
gleaming Memorial.
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Eric & I at the Memorial
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billowing above the
Memorial.
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of Sailors & Marines who
died on December 7, 1941.
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The names of the USS Arizona
survivors who died after
the Attack who chose to be
cremated & interred here.
Eighty-one years after the Attack on Pearl Harbor, there is a small number of USS Arizona living. On Friday, April 14, 2023, Crane Operator Ken Potts died, in Provo, Utah. He has chosen not to be cremated and interred at the Memorial.
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Eric & I join other visitors
The USS Arizona leaks about nine quarts of oil a day and the droplets are called Black Tears.
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It is quiet here.
People speak in
whispers.
Japan was expanding its Military and taking over territories for resources. The decision was made to attack the United States to deter our armed interference with their expansion.
Though the United States was assisting England with the Lend-Lease Program, the Country was a neutral country on the morning of December 7, 1941. On December 8th, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to Declare War on Japan. The Declaration against Japan was made on December 11th. Germany, Japan's Ally, responded with a Declaration of War against America on the same day.
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