Pearl Harbor Day

[Griff]

Thank you to all who have served to protect this great nation.

 

[MacGyver]

or could point to on a map where the state the ship was named after is at.

Awesome pic!

Here is good one- the oil slick is refereed to as the tears of the Arizona. She leaks a quart a day and survivors of the crew say she will leak until the last of them passes.

The Memorial is 184 foot long compared to the 608 feet of the Arizona

Thanks MM, I never knew about the Tears of the Arizona.

 

[Sunsation96]

Thank you to all who have served to protect this great nation.

You can say this again!:seeya:

 

[MarylandMark]

Thanks MM, I never knew about the Tears of the Arizona.

The Arizona had 1.4 million gallons of “Bunker-C” fuel on board when she sank. In 2006 they said she still had 500K gallons on board.

 

[Davidmnc]

we went to pearl on my honeymoon, we spent 2 days there. on our last day we were on the arizona memorial and for whatever reason it was only us and an older gentleman. it was hard not to notice how upset he was, thought maybe he lost a brother or something.. later that day he was the main guest being honored as one of the survivors on one of the ships.. i forget which one.. but later that day i went over and shook his hand and thanked him and exchanged a little small talk.. he said he remembered me from the memorial and he went on to say, just how many friends were on that wall... he said it was his first time back since that day, and since his heath was starting to fail, he thought it would be his duty to say goodbye to his friends before he could no longer do so.... by this time he was growing a little crowd and there was not a dry eye listening to his story....... it was very touching, and i will never forget him....

That is a great story. The men and women that dyed that day gave us the freedom to live the life we live. Thank you.