[ken5050]

Many thanks for posting this.

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.

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My first trip to this Memorial was Nov 1979. Japanese tourists were indeed everywhere.

Shame how GHW Bush minimized the 50th anniversary in consideration for Japanese 'feelings'.