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USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor closed indefinitely
The Associated Press ^ | 26 May 2018 | The Associated Press

Posted on 05/27/2018 7:35:51 AM PDT by US Navy Vet

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To: Eric in the Ozarks

76 years now.


21 posted on 05/27/2018 8:49:39 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
"Also saw “Japanese” dive bombers overhead as they were also filming TORA TORA TORA at that time."

I once worked with a guy who was in the Navy, at Pearl Harbor, at the very same time you were there. He said it was very eerie to be cruising into Pearl Harbor while watching Japanese aircraft flying around.

22 posted on 05/27/2018 8:50:26 AM PDT by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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To: US Navy Vet

Trump... “We’re going to repair the Arizona and Japan is going to pay for it!” (Humor intended)


23 posted on 05/27/2018 9:10:43 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: US Navy Vet

Neglect from 28 years of stupid CoC’s and their minions. I expect Trump as CoC to change this neglect, and hire diligent, American-loving subordinates who will care for America’s and her relics.


24 posted on 05/27/2018 9:46:25 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: tired&retired

25 posted on 05/27/2018 9:47:49 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: american_ranger

I also went in 1979, with my Mom and one of my brothers, a Marine. It was solemn, until a loud group appeared. Everyone glared at them until they left. I wonder how often that happens.


26 posted on 05/27/2018 10:13:25 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. Obama free since 1/20/17. PTL ~ Þ)
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To: DoodleDawg
Shame on you.

Spoiling a perfectly good rant by injecting facts into the topic.

27 posted on 05/27/2018 10:15:56 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again.)
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To: null and void
I think there is merely change. There is far too much there for it to cease to exist.


28 posted on 05/27/2018 10:18:56 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming))
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

That’s surreal.


29 posted on 05/27/2018 11:00:01 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: US Navy Vet

Isn’t there another battleship sunk near the Arizona?


30 posted on 05/27/2018 11:02:47 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: bert

Not in our lifetimes.


31 posted on 05/27/2018 11:07:15 AM PDT by null and void (Urban "food deserts," are caused by "climate change" in urban customers' attitudes (H/T niteowl77))
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To: null and void

Just checked. You are correct. All were refloated and returned to service except Arizona. Oklahoma was lost being towed back to the US.
I’ve read that the superstructure of the Arizona above the water line was dumped somewhere in the Hawaiian jungle.


32 posted on 05/27/2018 11:25:18 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: american_ranger

I visited a few times when I lived in Hawaii in 2010-11. There were more Japanese tourists than US citizens on each visit.


33 posted on 05/27/2018 11:28:27 AM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

No. There were only 3 that couldn’t be put back into service. Arizona, Oklahoma, and Utah Oklahoma was towed back to the mainland in 1947, but, capsized before reaching land, and, Utahwhich was being used as target practice by the Americans and was already out of service.

Actually, Pearl Harbor, while a tactical defeat of the Americans, was a strategic defeat of the Japanese. They missed blowing up the tank farm, and, most of the ships hit were returned to service. Leyte Gulf was was a bit of revenge for that.


34 posted on 05/27/2018 11:31:06 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Wow...now that had to be a creepy feeling! Complete with planes flying overhead. Being a big fan of history, I learned about the national Socialists in Germany and the horrors they perpetuated throughout their reign ending with WWII. One year when I was at Carnaval in Brasil and one of the schools, Vai-Vai chose to do a theme on Nostrodamas. They decided to include Nazi like costumes complete with the swastika and marched down the stadium. It sent a chill down my spine and that took a lot because I LOVE Carnaval. I took photos thinking “I won’t see this again in my lifetime.” Now given the actions we now know of during the obama tyranny, I think it was a premature thought. I don’t know what happened to the photos but there is video on the web if it’s still intact.


35 posted on 05/27/2018 11:33:23 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Unlikely, as it’s about 212 miles from the volcano.


36 posted on 05/27/2018 11:44:00 AM PDT by EEGator (The best part of freedom of speech is it lets one know who the a-holes are...)
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To: US Navy Vet

I suspect that incident qa while back where the prop wash from some ship maneuvering nearby caused much upheaval of the docking structure. It was closed for a while then.


37 posted on 05/27/2018 11:48:28 AM PDT by doorgunner69 (Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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To: BykrBayb

“...I wonder how often that happe...”

Probably more often than you think.


38 posted on 05/27/2018 11:51:23 AM PDT by NCC-1701 ((You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.))
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To: rockinqsranch

Unfamiliar with the geography on the island, but might the volcano be somewhat to blame?

Remember, folks, the STATUE OF LIBERTY was closed, and the WASHINGTON MONUMENT closed down for repair to a crack for a period of time.

Our nation cracks in two both figuratively and personally.
This, in itself, speaks VOLUMES!


39 posted on 05/27/2018 11:54:00 AM PDT by V K Lee (Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald J. Trump)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Not a battleship but some type of smaller ship, the Utah. It’s on the northern point of Ford Island.


40 posted on 05/27/2018 11:54:03 AM PDT by NCC-1701 ((You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.))
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