Pearl Harbor

Saturday we went to Pearl Harbor. The above photo was taken just before we disembarked from our transport boat onto the memorial for the USS Arizona. The ship you see is the USS Missouri.

The photo below depicts the USS Missouri on the left and the Memorial to the USS Arizon on the right. This memorial straddles the sunken Arizona. It sags in the middle to symbolize our initial defeat only to rise up at the ends to represent our ultimate victory. Standing inside the memorial, you can see oil resting on the surface of the water that overlays the sunken vessel that took with it over 1,100 people on December 7, 1941. The Arizona sank with over a million gallons of oil encased within it.