Name:	oneshot -	Reply
Subject:	Dec 7th,
Date:	12/7/2017 10:47:38 AM

Dec 7th, 1941....Never forget.

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Dec 7th,
Date:	12/7/2017 4:12:03 PM

Unfortunately, most younger people have no idea, and I think that is sad.  

Name:	Old Diver -	Reply
Subject:	Arizona
Date:	12/7/2017 8:55:09 PM

      Visiting the Arizona Memorial is one of the most moving experiences of my life. There is something wrong with an American who visits there and doesn't shed a tear.

Name:	GC -	Reply
Subject:	Arizona
Date:	12/7/2017 9:54:06 PM

When I visited the site we were surrounded by smoking Japanese.  So wrong but.......

Name:	oneshot -	Reply
Subject:	Arizona
Date:	12/7/2017 10:56:54 PM

I visited the Arizona in 1951 on my way to korea. There was some of the ship above surface.

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Arizona
Date:	12/8/2017 1:00:40 PM

I have never been, but most of the complaints I hear has to do with the number of Japanese that visit there.  You have to wonder what is going through their minds.  But yes, I could see it would be moving.  To think of all the people that died.  A long time ago I knew a man who was a survivor of Pearl Harbor.  

Name:	MrHodja -	Reply
Subject:	Arizona
Date:	12/8/2017 2:21:47 PM

I have been and yes, there were a lot of Japanese. What impressed me more was how close it is to the surface, and indeed, some of it is above the surface. 

Name:	Old Diver -	Reply
Subject:	Not All Bad
Date:	12/8/2017 3:12:54 PM

In one way we were a bit lucky at the attack. The ships were in port and sunk in shallow water. If they had a warning they would have sortied and be sunk in deep water. They did not hit our repair facilities and fuel storage. All but 2 ships were raised and went off to war.

   The salvage and repair of these ships was a little known heroic act. Look up a book, DESCENT INTO DARKNESS, about the salvage of those ships. The author was a hardhat diver and tells of diving inside the Arizona wlth some 200 of the crew floating around. There were men in those days!

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Not All Bad
Date:	12/8/2017 4:59:46 PM

They really were the greatest Generation.

Name:	Rich -	Reply
Subject:	Old Diver Thanks
Date:	12/9/2017 7:21:31 AM

Decent into Darkness looks like a great read it.s on my list.

Name:	phil -	Reply
Subject:	Not All Bad
Date:	12/11/2017 9:12:35 AM

Finished descent into darkness a few months back - damn good book.

Was at the Arizona memorial on dec 7th about 12 years ago when I had some personal business on the island - it was a experience of a lifetime and shall not be forgotten.  

Was at Hickam field and had left my base pass on the windshield and was driving around, ended up at the wrong gate and waved onto Ford Island.  When we went within a few hundred yards of the Missouri I realized where I was and went back off base and over to the public park side. 

Got some good pictures of the MO though.