USS Arizona survivor laid to rest inside sunken battleship

KITV Island News ^ | Apr 16, 2017 | Mackenzie Stasko

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A USS Arizona sailor who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor was laid to rest inside the ship he escaped.

The remains of Retired Master Chief Petty Officer Raymond Haerry, 94, were interred inside the hull of the USS Arizona Saturday afternoon. More than 100 people gathered at the USS Arizona Memorial for the interment ceremony -- a symbolic military funeral only offered to shipmates who survived the attack.

[Ciaphas Cain]

There are still pockets of air within the Arizona's hull. Some of them can be seen from the portholes. A moment of time from 1941, frozen in place.

It is not an easy thing to wonder, in such situations, what the condition of the human remains are in.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[Artemis Webb]