[Robe]

Back in the day, mid '60's I was serving in the USN, one morning I saw two Japanese destroyers entering Pearl Harbor flying the “Rising Sun” Flags at their mast tops. I thought I could feel the rumble of our fallen shipmates shaking their fists in unison

I have a picture somewhere in a old album.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Wife and I toured Pearl Harbor a few years back. We motored out to the Arizona Memorial with a small group of mostly young Japanese and their even younger children.
I asked one fellow why he was there and he responded, “We came to see what our fathers and grandfathers did. We didn't believe it until we saw it up close.”

As we approached the wreck, I caught a whiff of Number 6 fuel oil which has been bubbling up since the attack in ‘41. One of the US Navy guys (in a uniform I mistook for USMC) said there was debate about what to do about the wreck’s ultimate failure (coming apart.)

One proposal is to build a sarcophagus around the ship's remains to hold it in place while continuing to allow burials of Arizona veterans who survived. The Arizona has been down for a long time and the Navy wants to preserve it but there is great sensitivity since it is a grave site.