[Eric in the Ozarks]

Wife and I toured the Arizona Memorial and later, the BB Missouri two years ago.
The Memorial is just off the bow of the battleship, as if to write the beginning and end of the war.

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.

[Lx]

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.