Ping to a video on the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor.
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I can still remember my first rip to the Arizona Memorial. It was 1979. We were in Hawaii for a convention. I'd taken my family, so I took the wife and two young daughters. They didn't quite understand it all yet, but they instinctively knew it was a special place. The other thing that struck me was that more than half of the visitors on board that day were Japanese. Every one with one or two cameras.
Teach American history through these eyes.
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I’m Ok until they start playing taps. Then for some odd reason my allergies kick in at the same time.
Thanks for posting.
Thanks for posting. When I was out there in 2000 for our honeymoon, I thought that perhaps it would be like visiting any other war memorial, but it really is treated like sacred ground. The film that you watch before going out to the ship does not minimize the underhandedness of the Japanese aggression. I was glad to see that, and wondered what the many Japanese tourists were thinking.
That is a wonderful video, thank you. RIP sailors, RIP.
It is a moving tribute indeed, it moved this old Navy man. I wasn’t aware of this video, I have bookmarked it, thanks for the link.