Posted on 09/13/2012 10:01:25 AM PDT by Kartographer
ABOARD THE U.S.S. ARIZONA MEMORIAL, OAHU (HawaiiNewsNow) - On December 7, 1941, an explosion blew sailor Glenn Lane off the burning deck of the U.S.S. Arizona. On Wednesday, he returned to the Arizona a final time to join his shipmates in a ceremony that may be among the last of its kind.
Lane died December 10, 2011, in Mount Vernon, Wash. He was 93.
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In this Dec. 2, 2008 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, USS Arizona survivors Lauren Bruner, left, Glenn Lane and Edward Wentzlaff view the list of 1,177 perished Sailors and Marines in the shrine room of the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Lane died last year at age 93, and a Navy diver is placing his ashes in a gun turret in the Arizona on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. Photo: U.S. Navy, Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael A. Lantron / AP
Rest in peace sailor.
Homeward bound. Sound eight bells.
This video is worth watching.
His daughter, Trish Lane Anderson, is one of my high school classmates.
Finally home and at rest. RIP CMC Glenn Lane.
A Proud Ship with a Proud Crew.
On a visit to Pearl Harbor I was moved by this. It seems those who cheated death that day wanted to return. I had the same feeling in Saving Private Ryan when Ryan returned to kneel at the Cross of the captain to died to save him. The last words of the Captain to Ryan was to be ‘worth [earn?] this’. A troubled Ryan asked his wife ‘was I a good man’? War is not over till it’s finally over.
I will have to view the video later at home.
The story is moving. God Bless these men.
Awesome. He is among friends. When I was there twelve years or so ago, they had among the names, people interned after Pearl Harbor and the guide who was a Pearl Harbor survivor said they will inter people that survived which is pretty cool.
I wonder, soon enough, there won’t be any survivors left as guides, it’s sad.
The movie they showed before the ride to the memorial was so incredible, there wasn’t a dry eye in the house.
Maybe I am getting cynical, but when a thread on FR about the passing of one of the last of the USS Arizona heroes barely gets 10 post and a hoax death thread about a B- class actor gets over double that in almost the same amount of time I can’t help but think many be there isn’t any hope for America.
A small boat took us out from the Pearl Harbor dock to the Memorial and when we got within 100 feet, I got a whiff of Number 6 oil that drifts up, a few drops at a time, from the Arizona’s bunker. The “tears of the Arizona” will keep on leaking to the surface for as long as the wreck is in one big piece. There is talk about what to do to keep the Arizona wreck intact after 71 years of salt water.
Again, really lousy job of headline writing
(where did they bury the survivors?)
Just thinkin' out loud....
I would urge everyone who goes to Oahu to go to the memorial before anything else. When I went, the Missouri wasn’t ready for visitors.
What did you think of the movie? Being cynical, I thought some liberal might try to justify Japan’s attacks but I was pleasantly surprised to be completely wrong. Then again, since it’s staffed by survivors, I doubt they would let it happen.
Ave atque vale.
Fair winds.... and thank you.
My first cousin once removed was a medical corpsman on the Arizona that had gone to the main hospital that morning. He had no ship with which to return. He worked for three days straight in the hospital with the dying and wounded before he collapsed. He had some real issues until he developed Alzheimer’s but he had lived a good Christian life until he passed.
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