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2007-12-07 06:26:56

mimi Posts: 14	Remember Pearl Harbor
	8 I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time 8
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2007-12-07 09:03:01

the_librarian Posts: 0	Re: Remember Pearl Harbor Good post! I saw this in yesterday's WSJ: <a href="http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110010943" target="_blank">http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110010943</a> Here's a snippet: "...Not all of the wreckage is at the memorial on Ford Island. "After the bombing, the USS Arizona had much of the superstructure and metal above the water line cut away and sent to the mainland, either for use on other ships or designated for scrap," explains Agnes Tauyan, deputy director in the public affairs office of the commander, Navy Region Hawaii. Still later, additional pieces of wreckage, several tons of the Arizona, were removed from the ship during the construction of the memorial and transported to a spot across the channel from Ford Island, where they have been ever since, holding a silent and lonely vigil against time and the elements.... I'm going to post out to the levittown group also....

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2007-12-07 19:47:10

KittenWithaWhip Posts: 34	Re: Remember Pearl Harbor I went to the memorial in February of this year. It's really a haunting place, filled with phantoms. It's so easy to look down into the water and have the last six decades vanish. Once again, crew scuttle around the galley making chow for the troops, they swab the decks and man the guns. Everyone takes pictures of the guns when they go, because they're always sticking up out of the water and they symbolize the battle. But when I was there, there was this skinny little tube on the other side of the boat. I could just reach out and touch it when I leaned over the rail. It was a communications tube with some of the ladder and a good chunk of communications wire sticking up out of the water, and if you stood still for just a minute you could imagine a sailor scampering up the ladder on his way to the top deck.

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