“16 days to die at Pearl Harbor: Families weren’t told about sailors trapped inside sunken battleship” https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/16-days-to-die-at-pearl-harbor-families-werent-told-about-sailors-trapped-inside-sunken-battleship/
Not sure how I feel on this. They make it sound like the government did something wrong, but I think a line should be drawn somewhere...just sure not where.
After all, if a man was overtaken and eaten by a shark in the process of being rescued...in full view of everyone, does that help anyone knowing? Or a man trapped in a burning ship being burned alive (as a man, impaled on the superstructure of a damaged ship in the Guadalcanal campaign was, in full view of everyone but nobody could help him)
I don’t know. I don’t know how that helps anyone deal with it, but I suppose that is a personal thing and everyone deals differently with it.
The 16 days is one of the greatest unknown tragedies of Pearl Harbor. Absolutely heart rending. It’s mentioned in my sons film; there’s footage from the USS Oklahoma remembrance of 12/7/16 in the latter part of the movie
Sad.