Remembering all those who wre killed that day.....
I really loved having the opportunity to visit Pearl Harbor several years ago. It's particularly great that the Missouri is there now too, providing the perfect bookend to the Arizona.
I was there for the 50th anniversary. I got to watch the ceremonies from the top of a high rise on the sub base--I got a great view of the whole harbor, Ford Island, the Mighty Mo tied up across the water...Bush 41 at the Arizona Memorial...I can still remember him almost breaking up towards the end of his speech...It was very somber and spectacular at the same time.
It is fitting to have a ship representing the United States under attack and defeat balanced by one representing American success and victory.
Wife and I visited Pearl Harbor in 2000. I was struck, when stepping aboard Arizona by how every male removed his hat, even a couple of knuckle draggers with the backward baseball caps without having to be told.
We toured Missouri. All during the tour there was a guy in the group with heavy shop floor black work shoes who kept extolling the virtues of democraps. The tour guide, at one point, was giving the history of the commissionings, decommissionings, and recommissionings of the ship. He stated that the ship was laid down during F. Roosevelt and commissioned during Truman. Shop floor shoes loudly says, "democrats, good ones." Guide goes on--recommissioned during Reagan. To which RushLake says, "Republican, Great One." Shop floor shoes shoulders kinda rose up and nothing more was said about democraps.