In respect, the names of the men who died were cropped out.
Top of part of the ship.
The oil still rising today.
The memorial
We have approached our last day here in Hawaii. Tomorrow we are up very early to catch our flight to San Francisco for some sightseeing. Yesterday we spent the day at Pearl Harbor. We purposely left this tour for the end of the week. It was a difficult place to visit. The USS Arizona is the final resting place for 1,177 crewmen who lost their lives on Dec 7, 1941. Ever since Renie was a little boy, he was mesmerized with this place from movies and books he had read. I always said one day we will take you there. As a teenager, he was just as mesmerized. The memorial is in honor of those who died and were never recovered. The ship was so dismantled, divers could not recover these men. The national monument is a reminder of the burdens borne by some on the wartime home front. God bless these men and women who today fight an entirely different kind of war.
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