[SandRat]

My family and I stopped on our way back from a 3 year Army assignment in in S, Korea. and we went to Pearl Harbor to pay Honors to the USS Arizona.

While at the memorial as I was explaibg what it meant to my 5 year old son as he sat on the bench looking down at the ship's watery grave, he started to cry, and cry hard.

All he could sad say, would say, was that we had to get the men out insisting that we had to get them out, cause their Moms needed them.

Two Navy Wave,s came over to sit with him and Hug him tightly and calm him down.

they continued hugging him all the way back to dock and they were crying to quietly too.

When we dis boarded they were asked why they were crying. When they told the askers, more crying started all around.

[Alberta's Child]

All he could sad say, would say, was that we had to get the men out insisting that we had to get them out, cause their Moms needed them.

No offense, but that tells me he was way too young to hear what you told him.

[itsahoot]

When we dis boarded they were asked why they were crying.

Did you know that the Navy will bury shipmates at the Arizona? They take the ashes and divers place them in the hull of the ship. I saw one of the ceremonies somewhere on TV don't recall exactly who showed it.